Illustrated Poems By Mrs. L.M.Sigourney
by Sigourney, Lydia M
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG+/No Jacket
- Seller
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Shelbyville, Indiana, United States
Item Price
£61.04£48.83
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Parry & McMillan, 1856. Book. Illus. by Felix O.C.Darley. VG+. Decorative Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bright green cloth with raised borders front and back with elaborate gilt designs front back and spine. Gilt lettering to the spine. All page edges gilt. 408 pp. " Engraved by American artists...New Edition.." This copy is VG+. Exterior has minimal soil spots, modest rubbing, and modest wear to edges, tips, and spine ends. Inside has neat PO signature to FEP.. Otherwise unmarked, with minimal/modest toning / scattered foxing. Double frontispiece with tissue guard. Seven other illustrations, all with tissue guards. Lovely. SCARCE as only two other copies found on Abe as of July 2021...neither from this publisher or year..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bailey Bonzo Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001994
- Title
- Illustrated Poems By Mrs. L.M.Sigourney
- Author
- Sigourney, Lydia M
- Illustrator
- Felix O.C.Darley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Parry & McMillan
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1856
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- poetry;
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Bailey Bonzo Books
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Shelbyville, Indiana
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