Accession number
PML 89042
Creator
Cranch, Christopher Pearse, 1813-1892.
Published
Boston : Lee and Shepard, 149 Washington St., 1869.
Credit line
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1979.
Notes
"Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by Phillips, Sampson and Company, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts."--verso of t.p.
Series title on spine.
Six full-page engraved illustrations, including frontispiece, printed on one side only, and several vignettes, all signed CPC.
Illustrated by the author.
"Charles R. Bowie got this book back Dec. 25 1930. Received originally probably about 1875. Remember of having read it when a little boy"--inscription in black ink on fly-leaf.
"Chicago West Side Library. Emerson & Davies. Prop'rs, Wholesale Dealers in Books, Music, News & Stationary, 239 West Madison St."--bookseller's label inside lower board.
Series title on spine.
Six full-page engraved illustrations, including frontispiece, printed on one side only, and several vignettes, all signed CPC.
Illustrated by the author.
"Charles R. Bowie got this book back Dec. 25 1930. Received originally probably about 1875. Remember of having read it when a little boy"--inscription in black ink on fly-leaf.
"Chicago West Side Library. Emerson & Davies. Prop'rs, Wholesale Dealers in Books, Music, News & Stationary, 239 West Madison St."--bookseller's label inside lower board.
Description
[2], iv, 70, [4] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 19.5 x 15 cm
Provenance
From the library of Lincoln Kirstein.
Binding
Publisher's green morocco-grain cloth, blocked in gold and blind; with brown endpapers.
Classification
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Department