AUNT SOPHY'S BOYS AND GIRLS
New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Life lessons for Victoran-era children. Octavo: 212, [2, ads] pp. with the frontispiece with tissue guard, title page vignette, 21 full-page plates, and 77 textual illustrations, all wood engravings after illustrations. In the publisher's brown diagonal fine-ribbed cloth binding, with beveled boards; black-stamped ruled borders, black, silver, and gilt-stamped ornamental surround for circular vignette with shrub, bird, and crawling infant, and black and gilt-stamped decorative titling on the front panel; black and gilt-stamped ruled and ornamental head and tail bands, black-stamped ornamental panel, black and gilt-stamped publisher's monogram device within arrow and titling panels on the spine; and blind-stamped ruled borders, strapwork surround, and floral vignette. All edges gilt, with brown coated endpapers. Period gift inscription to the front flyleaf. Mild wear to the corners and tips; else very good or better. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin. Very good. Item #80905
Price: $150.00