Accession number
PML 88948
Creator
Stein, A. (Anna), 1792-1874.
Published
Boston : Crosby, Nichols, & Co., 111 Washington Street ; Cincinnati : George S. Blanchard, 1857.
Credit line
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1979.
Notes
Trauermantel is a pseudonym for the translator. It is the German word for a mourning cloak, which is illustrated on the title page by a vignette of a butterfly.
"Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by Crosby, Nichols, & Co., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts"--verso of t.p.
"Cambridge : Electrotyped and printed by Metcalf and Company"--verso of t.p.
Six full-page color lithograph illustrations, including frontispiece, variously signed: Power's & Weller's Lith. Boston and J.C., 5J.C.4, or JFAC, (variant signatures for the same illustrator, Joseph Foxcroft A. Cole)
Twelve pages of publisher's advertisement follow the text.
"Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by Crosby, Nichols, & Co., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts"--verso of t.p.
"Cambridge : Electrotyped and printed by Metcalf and Company"--verso of t.p.
Six full-page color lithograph illustrations, including frontispiece, variously signed: Power's & Weller's Lith. Boston and J.C., 5J.C.4, or JFAC, (variant signatures for the same illustrator, Joseph Foxcroft A. Cole)
Twelve pages of publisher's advertisement follow the text.
Description
[6], 220, [2], 12, [2] p., [5] leaves of plates : col. ill. (lithographs) ; 17.5 x 12 cm
Provenance
From the library of Lincoln Kirstein.
Binding
Publisher's blue floral rib-grain cloth, blocked in blind with spine blocked in gold, signed "NC 1857".
Classification
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