Bracebridge Hall / Washington Irving
Book
284 p., [8] leaves of plates, incl. frontis : ill.
Note: two-tone t.p.
Bracebridge Hall was written by Irving in 1821, while he lived in England, and originally published in 1822 under his pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon. The tales focus on the occupants of an English manor with a number of individual plots as a series of character sketches.
2017.11.22
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
National characteristicsJuvenile fiction1870s
19 cm
Washington Irving
Randolph Caldecott
First
The Cranford Series
London
England
1877
R. & R. Clark
Edinburgh
ScotlandUnited Kingdom
Publisher's Binding- Cranford Series
Bound in dark green cloth with gilt decoration and titles to spine and front cover. Cover depicts young woman seated on a chair under a young sapling. Brown stone endpapers. Marvelous spine decoration. All edges gilt. Bookbinders' ticket to rear - bound by Burns & Co.
Owner's bookplate on ffep