THE
HISTORY AND POETRY
OF
FINGER-RINGS
BY
CHARLES EDWARDS
COUNSELLOR AT LAW, NEW YORK
“——My ring I hold dear as my finger; ’tis part of it.”
Shakspeare
WITH A PREFACE BY R. H. STODDARD.
NEW YORK
JOHN W. LOVELL COMPANY
150 Worth Street, corner Mission Place
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by
CHARLES EDWARDS,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District
of New-York.