Accession number
PML 88967
Published
New York : Rhodes and Washburn, MDCCCLXXXI [1881]
Credit line
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1979.
Notes
Cover and half-title: Afternoon tea / by J.G. Sowerby and H.H. Emmerson.
Publisher's name given on cover as "Rhodes & Co."
Reprint, presumably piratical. Originally published: London : Warne, [1880]. The illustrations are unsigned black-line relief copies of the color originals, printed on lithographically tinted yellow, green, pink, and blue pages; the pictorial covers, in color, and the binding as a whole, closely imitate the Warne edition.
"New York : J.J. Little & Co., Printers, 10 to 20 Astor Place"-- p. 64.
"Fanny from Aunt E., Dec. 25, 1881"--inscription in blue ink on fly-leaf.
Publisher's name given on cover as "Rhodes & Co."
Reprint, presumably piratical. Originally published: London : Warne, [1880]. The illustrations are unsigned black-line relief copies of the color originals, printed on lithographically tinted yellow, green, pink, and blue pages; the pictorial covers, in color, and the binding as a whole, closely imitate the Warne edition.
"New York : J.J. Little & Co., Printers, 10 to 20 Astor Place"-- p. 64.
"Fanny from Aunt E., Dec. 25, 1881"--inscription in blue ink on fly-leaf.
Description
[2], 64, [2] p. : ill. (engravings, lithographs) ; 25 x 19 cm
Provenance
From the library of Lincoln Kirstein.
Binding
Publisher's 1/4 green diagonal rib-grain cloth with glazed col. pictorial paper covers, edges green, with brown floral endpapers.
Classification
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