Friendship s Offering: A Christmas, New Year and Birthday Gift

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Verlag: Leavitt & Allen, 1855

Beschreibung

Friendship s Offering: A Christmas, New Year and Birthday Gift, Published by Leavitt & Allen, New York, 1855, 264 pp, illustrated title, presentation with five full-page black and white plates, 7.5 x 5.5 ,12mo. In good condition. Lovely binding with gilt hand-painted black roundel. Inlaid mother of pearl decoration on front board. Rear board roundel less lavish but still hand painted with gilt accents. Beautiful red blind leather exhibits moderate wear and scuffing to edges. Loss at tips with cracking joint. Spine abraded with light loss at tail of spine. End papers exhibit light staining along edges. Splotchy toning and foxing to end papers. Illustrated presentation bright and clean. Frontispiece remains with its original tissue guard. Light offsetting from plates. All tissue guards intact and clean. All gilt edges. Light rippling to text from previous humidity exposure. Free of known markings. Binding intact. Please see photos. A spectacular example of decadent Victorian binding with mother of pearl inlay and gilt hand painting. Gift books, literary annuals, or keepsakes were 19th-century books, often lavishly decorated, which collected essays, short fiction, and poetry. They were primarily published in the autumn, in time for the holiday season and were intended to be given away rather than read by the purchaser. They were often printed with the date of the coming new year, but copyrighted with the actual year of publication. Gift books first appeared in England in the 1820s. They were modeled after the long-established literary almanacs published in France and Germany. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers COLI1855ADGN

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Friendship s Offering: A Christmas, New Year...

Verlag: Leavitt & Allen

Erscheinungsdatum: 1855

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket