The Backwoods Boy; Or, The Boyhood and Manhood of Abraham Lincoln / Horatio Alger
Book
Bound for Beauty #27
307, [8] p., [1] leaf of plates, frontis : ill.
Book advertisements at rear.
Other titles in the same binding/color by Street & Smith in 1900, part of its Boys' Own Library Series.
2015.7.211
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
1900s
7-1/2 in
Horatio Alger, Jr
The Boys' Own Favourite Series
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
United States
North America
circa 1883
Publisher's Binding- Poster Style
Binding circa 1900. Green cloth binding with red, black, green and gilt decoration and lettering to front cover and spine. Cover depicts Lincoln as young boy holding riding crop, wearing riding boots, within a rectangle of gilt tree and river scene. Motif repeated on spine.
Later reprint edition, no addition printings noted. Originally published in 1883 under title: Abraham Lincoln, the backwoods boy.
Abraham Lincoln
Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection