THE SPRAGUE PRIMER AND FIRST READER
Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Company, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo: 112 pp. with a full-page color wood engraving, a full-page color halftone, and a full-page halftone, as well as three ornamental pages, color wood engravings; twelve ornamented pages, color halftones; forty ornamented pages, halftones, and six ornamented pages, photo-engravings. In the publisher's tan flat-weave cloth binding, with chestnut and dark brown-stamped ruled borders, and repetitive, stylized design of children and foliage, dark brown-stamped ornaments and titling on the front panel, and dark brown-stamped running titling along the spine. Period previous owner's pencil signature mostly erased from the front flyleaf. The binding is clean and bright. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin. Item #80933
Price: $100.00