Accession number
PML 88944
Published
New York : Published by the American Tract Society, 150 Nassau St. New-York, [not before 1853?]
Credit line
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1979.
Notes
Stories and poems. Includes the story of child martyr Knud Iverson, who was drowned August 9, 1953 (cf. p. 72)
Numerous grey-tinted wood engravings, including frontispiece and t.p. vignette, variously signed: Childs sc., E.J. Whitney or E.J.W., R.R. sc., P. Annin sc., Bobbett & Edmonds sc., Wade del., A. Kinnersley, Jas. Brown del., and W. Roberts sc.
"Ex libris Geo. T. Hartshorn"--bookplate inside upper cover.
Numerous grey-tinted wood engravings, including frontispiece and t.p. vignette, variously signed: Childs sc., E.J. Whitney or E.J.W., R.R. sc., P. Annin sc., Bobbett & Edmonds sc., Wade del., A. Kinnersley, Jas. Brown del., and W. Roberts sc.
"Ex libris Geo. T. Hartshorn"--bookplate inside upper cover.
Description
80 p. : ill. (wood engravings) ; 21 x 17 cm
Provenance
Geo. T. Hartshorn, bookplate; from the library of Lincoln Kirstein.
Binding
Publisher's purple pictorial bead-grain cloth, blocked in gold and blind, with salmon color endpapers.
Classification
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