Ellen Montgomery's bookshelf / by the authors of "The wide, wide world," "Queechy," "Speculation," &c.&c &c. ; with illustrations by J.D. Watson, printed in colours.

Accession number: 
PML 142848
Author: 
Warner, Susan, 1819-1885.
Published: 
London: Frederick Warne & Co., Bedford Street, Covent Garden, 1866.
Description: 
x, 592 p. [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. (wood engravings) ; 18 cm.
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Written jointly by Susan and Anna Bartlett Warner.
Illustrated with 8 color wood engravings, including frontispiece, executed by the Dalziel Brothers after J.D. Watson.
Plates accompanied by guard sheets.
"Ballantyne, Roberts, and Company, printers, Edinburgh."--Colophon.
Library's copy imperfect, with only 7 of 8 plates present; plate usually located opposite p. 131, with caption "Edith's winter dress," is missing.

Binding: 
Publisher's blue cloth blocked in gold and blind, bound by Westleys & Co., with their ticket (Ball 103c).
Provenance: 
Inscribed "Mary O'Rourke September 1866" on front flyleaf; signature of Forrest Reid; from the libraries of J.N. Hart and Gordon N. Ray.
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