Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, etc. / Louisa M. Alcott
Book
Bound for Beauty #8
234 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill.
6 pages of advertising to the rear (4 illustrated).
Volume 6 (VI) in the "Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag" Series. This is the last of 6 titles in the series published in a uniform binding. Eleven Alcott tales.
One of several spin-offs of Alcott's wildly successful "Little Women." This was the first in a series of books featuring an adult Jo, "Little Women's" main character, as the narrator.
2015.7.61
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Children's stories.1880s
6-1/2 in
4-7/16 in
Louisa May Alcott
6
First
Scrap Bag
Roberts Brothers
Boston
Massachusetts
United States
North America
1882
Press of John Wilson and Son
Cambridge
Massachusetts
United States
North America
Publisher's Binding
Bound in bright blue cloth with gilt titles and a number 6 to the spine. Spine decoration has a gilt scrap bag and other embellishments. Cover is blind-stamped with ruled blank rectangles. Delicate green floral patterned endpapers.
Bibliography of American Literature
BAL 202
Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection