Accession number:
PML 89026
Published:
Boston : Loring, Publisher, 319 Washington Street, 35 School Street, [1870?]
Description:
[4], 185, [5] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. (wood engravings) ; 15.5 x 10.5 cm
Credit:
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1979.
Notes:
"Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by A.K. Loring, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington"--verso of t.p.
"Rockwell & Churchill, Printers and Stereotypers, 122 Washington Street, Boston"--verso of t.p.
Four full-page wood engraved illustrations, including frontispiece, signed C. Bush and John Andrew - Son.
The authors of "The fairy egg" are identified as H.H. Weston, C. Clark, and L. Gibbons (Lucy Gibbons Morse) by Halkett & Laing (vol. II, p. 254)
Binding:
Publisher's purple morocco-grain cloth, blocked in gold and blind; with yellow endpapers.
Provenance:
From the library of Lincoln Kirstein.
Catalog Link:
Department: