Grandmother Lee's Portfolio
by Guild, Anne
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Not Issued
- Seller
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Whittemore, Niles, and Hall, 1857. Book. Illus. by Hammatt Billings. Good. Hardcover. 2nd. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Handcolored wood engraving as a frontis piece. With five (5) more full page handcolored wood block engravings. The book is complete. Green Blind-stamped and embossed gold gilt title on front cover. Rubbed with loss of cloth to extremities. 74 pages with scattered foxing. A story of a little girlasking her grandmother about gift giving and the Fourth of July Celebration. large octavo. Previous owners name top of FEP..
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Details
- Bookseller
- First Landing Books & Art (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53832
- Title
- Grandmother Lee's Portfolio
- Author
- Guild, Anne
- Illustrator
- Hammatt Billings
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Not Issued
- Edition
- 2nd
- Publisher
- Whittemore, Niles, and Hall
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1857
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Children's Fourth of July Tale American Folklore
- Bookseller catalogs
- Childrens;
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About the Seller
First Landing Books & Art
Biblio member since 2005
Virginia Beach, Virginia
About First Landing Books & Art
We are an Open Shop in Towne Center Antique Mall. 3900 Bonney Road. Virginia Beach, VA 23452. We have been selling books for 20 years, 13 online. We are open daily! Our inventory includes Americana, Virginia and local history. World history, Classic Literature, Science and Technology, Philosophy, Religion, Fine Bindings and sets. Too many too list!
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...