E s holloway illus (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 12mo. Blue decorative cl., gilt lettering, beige designs, to front cover and backstr., edges v. sl. rubbed. Frontis w. tissue overlay. Illus. 248pp. incl. index, top edge gilt.

Hardcover. Condizione: GOOD+. Hardcover over 125 years old. Tight, bright, unmarked pages, slight tilt to spine. Original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering and decorations, and gilt top edge. Exterior is faded and lightly age soiled with clear titles and trim. 248 pages, (Philadelphia, PA, J.B. Lippincott, 1895) "By talking with men and women who lived in the first quarter of this century (1800-1825), we not only learn how our great cities appeared before the advent of the railroad, the steamboat, and the telegraph, but, also reaching back through their family tradition, are placed in touch with the scenes of the Revolution and, even further back with those of Colonial days. " Covers topics on colonial days in America: women in the early settlement, early poetesses, colonial dames, old landmarks, weddings and merry-makings, legend and romance." Migrated Books Template. …

248 pp. With Illustrations by E. S. Holloway. 12mo, publisher's blue decorated and gilt-lettered cloth. First edition. A bright attractive copy. Signed and inscribed on the front free endpaper by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, November, 1919.