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Nelly and Her Friends / Josephine Franklin

2015.7.34

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Children's storiesConduct of life1860s

7 in

4-1/2 in

Josephine Franklin

Billings and Hyde

Boston

Massachusetts

United States

North America

1864

Publisher's Binding

Bound in a uniform series binding of bright blue cloth with blind stamped design to front and rear. Highly decorated spine with a distinctive "ribbon or banner" style title. The ribbon, winding around a pole, or thin tree trunk with branches, contains the words "Love" and "Truth".

First published in 1859

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