J g whittier editor (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Stated Fourteenth Printing. The book is bound in brick- red colored cloth with title, author and illustration in right gilt on the front and spine. Corners and spine caps are softly worn. Beveled covers. All page edges bright gilt. Endpapers are coated brown. Frontis-piece engraving with tissue guard intact. Tissue guard is tanned. Brief notes in pencil on the ffe and the page after the ffe. Otherwise, the pages are ivoried, smooth and unmarked. Profusely illustrated with engravings in black and white. Poems for and about children including The Owl and the Pussy Cat, The Barefoot Boy and many others from the Victorian age : including Tennyson, Whittier, Blake, Dickens, Mary Lamb.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. Two Volumes; 5 6/8 inches x 8 6/8 in., half-titles; frontispieces with title-printed tissue guards; title-pages printed in red and black with Riverside Press device, limitation statement on reverse of title-page; preface; contents; list of illustrations. Volume 1: [x], [1]-402 pp.; Volume 2: [viii], pp. [403]-802, including index; illustrated with a total of 20 plates, each with title-printed tissue guards. Dark brown morocco leather spines, sides and corner-pieces, with five raised bands on the spines, and gilt-lettered titling and designs in compartments, with marbled paper over boards; top-edges gilt, headbands, green silk bookmarker ribbons bound in, matching marbled endpapers. The spines show light fading, light wear to cover corners. Includes letters during the Civil War period and letters from Whittier to: Celia Thaxter, Sarah Orne Jewett, Dorothea Dix. Weight: 5 lbs. Postage may be extra on this item. …