Cranford / Mrs. Gaskell
Book
Bound for Beauty #85
297 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill.
First published in 1851 in serial form in the Dickens edited "Household Worlds."
With a preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie.
Bookseller's ticket inside front cover: Mawson, Swan, & Morgan, Booksellers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
2017.11.14
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
1890s
7-1/2 in
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Hugh Thomson
The Cranford Series
London
England
1891
R. & R. Clark
Edinburgh
ScotlandUnited Kingdom
Publisher's Binding- Cranford Series
Hugh Thomson
Bound in dark green cloth with binding design by Hugh Thomson featuring a large potted daisy, a tea service, and playing cards. Elaborate floral gilt spine decoration. Green coated endpapers. All edges gilt.
Published in the same year of publication- 1891 to title page. No date to copyright page. Owner's bookplate to ffep. Grace M. Pugh Owner's name written on half title page: J. E. Taylor, Humshaugh.
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