Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys / Louisa M. Alcott
Book
Bound for Beauty #5
376 p. : wood-engravings.
Four pages of advertisements precede the frontis plate. No advertisements to the rear.
First American edition, preceded by UK edition.
2015.7.28
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
1860sJuvenile fiction.Conduct of life
6-3/4 in
4-1/2 in
Louisa May Alcott
First American
Boston
Massachusetts
United States
North America
1871
Press of John Wilson and Son
Cambridge
Massachusetts
United States
North America
Publisher's Binding
Bound in rust cloth with gilt titles to cover and spine enclosed within a decorated oval. This is a uniform binding published by Roberts. Illustrated with a frontis plate. Three additional plates. Rust stone endpapers.
John Wilson & Son
prt
Identical copy in green cloth (2015.7.26)
Bibliography of American Literature
BAL 167
Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection