Accession number
PML 88980
Creator
Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880.
Published
New York : Clark Austin & Co., 3 Park Row & 3 Ann St., © 1833.
Credit line
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1979.
Notes
"Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1833, by Carter, Hendee, & Babcock, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts"--verso of t.p.
Engraved, hand-colored frontispiece, title-page signed Childs & Jocelyn, and numerous engraved vignettes, variously signed JHH, Hall, or Crosman sc.
"The drawings of the automata were prepared by D.C. Johnson. The illustrations of the Games were drawn by Mr. Graeter"--preface.
Publisher's advertisements on p. [3-4]
"Lavinia Angier to her Granddaughter Lavinia Hathaway Angier December 25th 1853"--inscription in black ink on fly-leaf.
Engraved, hand-colored frontispiece, title-page signed Childs & Jocelyn, and numerous engraved vignettes, variously signed JHH, Hall, or Crosman sc.
"The drawings of the automata were prepared by D.C. Johnson. The illustrations of the Games were drawn by Mr. Graeter"--preface.
Publisher's advertisements on p. [3-4]
"Lavinia Angier to her Granddaughter Lavinia Hathaway Angier December 25th 1853"--inscription in black ink on fly-leaf.
Description
[6], 288, [2] p. : ill. (one color) (engravings), music ; 15 x 12.5 cm
Provenance
From the library of Lincoln Kirstein.
Binding
Publisher's pictorial blue rib-grain cloth, blocked in gold and blind, with yellow end-papers.
Classification
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Department