Accession number:
PML 142848
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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