Accession number
PML 88921
Creator
Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880.
Published
New York : C.S. Francis & Co., 252 Broadway ; Boston : J.H. Francis, 128 Washington Street, 1850.
Credit line
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1979.
Notes
"Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1839, By Charles S. Francis & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York."--verso of t.p.
"Printed by Munroe & Francis, Boston."--verso of t.p.
"This story is translated from the German, but the style is entirely changed throughout, in order to give greater clearness and simplicity to the English version."--p. [5]
Eleven full-page engraved illustrations, including frontispiece, printed within decorative borders, a title-page vignette, and a head-piece, all unsigned.
"Emma Lucinda Hartshorne. From Aunt Lucinda January 1st, 1851"--inscription in black ink on fly-leaf.
"Printed by Munroe & Francis, Boston."--verso of t.p.
"This story is translated from the German, but the style is entirely changed throughout, in order to give greater clearness and simplicity to the English version."--p. [5]
Eleven full-page engraved illustrations, including frontispiece, printed within decorative borders, a title-page vignette, and a head-piece, all unsigned.
"Emma Lucinda Hartshorne. From Aunt Lucinda January 1st, 1851"--inscription in black ink on fly-leaf.
Description
[2], 46, [4] p. : ill. (engravings) ; 15 x 12.5 cm
Provenance
Emma Lucinda Hartshorne, inscription; from the library of Lincoln Kirstein.
Binding
Publisher's pictorial green rib-grain cloth, blocked in gold and blind.
Classification
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