Accession number
PML 88853
Creator
Newton, William Wilberforce, 1843-1914.
Published
Boston : A. Williams and Company, Old Corner Bookstore, 1882.
Credit line
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1979.
Notes
"One of them" is the pseudonym for William Wilberforce Newton (The Publisher's Weekly, Sept. 16, 1882, p. 407)
Numerous vignettes depicting children, and eight full page, unsigned color lithographs, including frontispiece.
"Copyright, 1881, By A. Williams & Co."--verso of t.p.
"The Riverside Press, Cambridge: Electrotyped and Printed by H.O. Houghton & Co."--verso of t.p.
"From Jerrold Nedwick, Antiquarian Bookseller, 2013 Prairie, Chicago, 16, Ill."--bookseller's label inside lower board.
Engraved bookplate inside upper cover, with initials LMV de W inside a cartouche surrounded by floral vines.
Numerous vignettes depicting children, and eight full page, unsigned color lithographs, including frontispiece.
"Copyright, 1881, By A. Williams & Co."--verso of t.p.
"The Riverside Press, Cambridge: Electrotyped and Printed by H.O. Houghton & Co."--verso of t.p.
"From Jerrold Nedwick, Antiquarian Bookseller, 2013 Prairie, Chicago, 16, Ill."--bookseller's label inside lower board.
Engraved bookplate inside upper cover, with initials LMV de W inside a cartouche surrounded by floral vines.
Description
[8], 88, [2] p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. (lithographs) ; 21 x 26 cm
Provenance
LMV de W, bookplate; from the library of Lincoln Kirstein.
Binding
Publisher's tan lithograph pictorial paper boards depicting children in sail-boats, framed by children at play during the seasons, signed Armstrong & Co. Lith. Boston; with white and green patterned end-papers.
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