Eight cousins; Or, The Aunt-Hill / Louisa M. Alcott
Book
Bound for Beauty #7
290 p. : ill. frontis
6 pages of advertisements for Alcott's works to the rear.
This is an early edition of Alcott's 1875 novel portraying the tale of Rose Campbell.
2015.7.41
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
GirlsFiction.1870s
6-3/4 in
4-1/2 in
Louisa May Alcott
Boston
Massachusetts
United States
North America
1874
John Wilson & Son
Cambridge
Massachusetts
United States
North America
1875
Publisher's Binding- Eastlake Design
Bound in green cloth with blind stamped rectangular panels to the front cover, gilt Eastlake design to the spine. Spine Title reads EIGHT COUSINS OR THE AUNTHILL. Brown stone coated endpapers.
Bibliography of American Literature
BAL lists only 1875 date. Same as BAL177 except in green cloth, not blue.
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