Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. Part First / Louisa M. Alcott
Book
Bound for Beauty #3
341 pages. Illustrated frontis.
10 pages of illustrated advertisements to rear.
In a uniform binding of Eight Cousins, but with different endpapers. Binding design is more typical of 1870s bindings. A common practice for series issued in different years--binding style will reflect the period of the first issue in the series.
2015.7.40
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
March familyJuvenile fiction1870s
6-3/4 in
4-1/2 in
Louisa May Alcott
1
Boston
Massachusetts
United States
North America
1868
University Press ; John Wilson and Son)
Cambridge
Massachusetts
United States
North America
1880
Publisher's Binding- Eastlake Design
Bound in green cloth with blind stamped rectangular panels to the front and rear cover. Gilt Eastlake design to the spine. Spine title reads LITTLE WOMEN PART FIRST. Green floral endpapers.
Copyright date 1868
New England
United States
North America
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