Accession number
PML 88931
Published
Boston : D. Lothrop Company, Franklin and Hawley Street, © 1887.
Credit line
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1979.
Notes
"Copyright, 1887, by Lothrop and Company"--verso of t.p.
"Berwick & Smith, Printers, Boston"--verso of t.p.
Text printed in brown, blue, and green.
Twelve full-page, unsigned lithograph line illustrations, printed in brown, blue, and green, depicting various animals, and a man, all in pear-shape.
Engraved frontispiece printed in brown, depicting three children, signed CH and M.
"Wishing you a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year. From your Loving Sister Nellie. To Stewart M. Peck. X-mas 1889"--inscription in black ink on fly-leaf.
"Corner Book Shop 102 Fourth Avenue New York 3, N.Y."--bookseller's label inside upper cover.
Laid in: A klipping regarding crocheting, of no apparent importance to this book.
"Berwick & Smith, Printers, Boston"--verso of t.p.
Text printed in brown, blue, and green.
Twelve full-page, unsigned lithograph line illustrations, printed in brown, blue, and green, depicting various animals, and a man, all in pear-shape.
Engraved frontispiece printed in brown, depicting three children, signed CH and M.
"Wishing you a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year. From your Loving Sister Nellie. To Stewart M. Peck. X-mas 1889"--inscription in black ink on fly-leaf.
"Corner Book Shop 102 Fourth Avenue New York 3, N.Y."--bookseller's label inside upper cover.
Laid in: A klipping regarding crocheting, of no apparent importance to this book.
Description
[16] leaves : col. ill. (lithographs, engraving) ; 17.5 x 21.5 cm
Provenance
Stewart M. Peck, inscription ; from the library of Lincoln Kirstein.
Binding
Publisher's 1/4 gray diagonal rib-grain cloth with pictorial color lithograph paper covers.
Classification
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Department