Accession number
PML 88902
Published
New York : Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square, [185-?], @1836.
Credit line
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1979.
Notes
Added engraved title page: The fairy book illustrated with eighty one cuts by Adams.
Engraved frontispiece signed: Chapman del. and J.A. Adams sc.
The engraved vignettes, tail pieces, and historiated initials are unsigned.
"Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1836, by Harper & Brothers"--verso of t.p.
According to New York City directories, Harper & Brothers originally published at Franklin Square (Pearl Street) in 1853.
Introduction signed: John Smith" [i.e. Gulian C. Verplanck]; includes a sketch of the career of John Newbery.
"Edith S. Stevens. From Grandm'a"--inscription in pencil on recto of fly-leaf.
Engraved frontispiece signed: Chapman del. and J.A. Adams sc.
The engraved vignettes, tail pieces, and historiated initials are unsigned.
"Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1836, by Harper & Brothers"--verso of t.p.
According to New York City directories, Harper & Brothers originally published at Franklin Square (Pearl Street) in 1853.
Introduction signed: John Smith" [i.e. Gulian C. Verplanck]; includes a sketch of the career of John Newbery.
"Edith S. Stevens. From Grandm'a"--inscription in pencil on recto of fly-leaf.
Description
[4], iv, 301, [3] p. : ill. (engravings) ; 19 x 14 cm
Provenance
Edith S. Stevens, inscription; from the library of Lincoln Kirstein.
Binding
Publisher's purple pictorial bead-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind.
Classification
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Department