A Cracker Bon-Bon for Christmas Parties; Consisting of Christmas Pieces, for Private Representation, and Other Seasonable Matter, in Prose and Verse.

Brough, Robert B.

Verlag: London, David Bogue, 1852.

Beschreibung

First edition. Small square 8vo, all edges gilt. Original binding of embossed red cloth with elaborate gilt title on spine and front board. Spine incomplete, missing about an inch at the top and again at the bottom, but fortunately the portion with the title "A Cracker Bon-Bon" is all there. Blind stamp of W. H. Smith, with an address at The Strand, their original store, on the front free endpaper and binder's ticket on rear pastedown. Internally very good, an armorial ink stamp has been used four times on the front free endpaper. Wonderful and amusing hand-colored frontispiece in the style of Phiz which is a parody of the story of King Alfred and the cakes, black-and-white illustrations throughout text. One of the sections "A Pot of Preserves on Mount Parnassus" is a takeoff on Leigh Hunt's "A Jar of Honey on Mount Hybla," with poems in various styles, including a minstrel song. A book for the kind of Christmas Dickens might have had. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1655

Bibliografische Details

Titel: A Cracker Bon-Bon for Christmas Parties; ...

Verlag: London, David Bogue, 1852.

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Auflage: 1st Edition