Farm Ballads / Will Carleton
2015.7.225
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
1900s
7-1/2 in
5 in
Will Carleton
First
New York
New York
United States
North America
1910
Publisher's Binding- Poster Style
Thomas Watson Ball
Bound in a deep purple smooth cloth in a striking double ruled binding with a small central rectangular ruled flat poster-style illustration of fields, sky, clouds, and red-roofed farm buildings, stamped in two shades of green, yellow, and red. Tissue Guarded Frontis.With the very rare dust jacket. Binding should be compared with the earlier First Edition of 1873. Unsigned binding, attributed to Thomas Watson Ball by Minksy
First edition of the re-issue. Originally published in 1873.
Compare with 1870s binding (2015.7.47)
Minsky, R. Book cover art of Thomas Watson Ball, page 37
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