The Swiss Family Robinson / Robert Louis Stevenson
Book
394 pages, plus 6 pages publisher's advertising. Frontis illustration.
Inferior paper and printing.
2015.7.124
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
1880sCheap book production
7-1/2 in
5 in
Robert Louis Stevenson
Alta Edition
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
United States
North America
circa 1880
Publisher's Binding- Gold Band Titles
In a distinct uniform series binding of brick colored cloth stamped in black to spine and cover. Cover and spine design has leaf and flower motif stamped on a diagonal with only the background alternating from solid black to stippling. "Alta Edition" stamped to center of cover with title in a rectangular bordered panel to the top. Gold title band to spine. Light brown endpapers.
No publication date.
Johann David Wyss