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Bracebridge Hall / Washington Irving

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

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