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Rollo's Travel / Jacob Abbott

2015.7.8

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

SteamboatsJuvenile fictionGift book1850s

6 in

3-3/4 in

Jacob Abbott

New and Revised

Boston

Massachusetts

United States

North America

1850

Publisher's Binding

Engraved frontis. Bound in blue cloth with a central blind stamped scene of three children within a multiple ruled border. Repeated to rear. Gilt stamping and decoration to spine.

On spine: Rollo books. Inscription: "Presented to Lendall Titcomb for improvement in Penmanship, by Samuel Brown. August 30th, 1856."

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