Poetry for Children by Samuel Eliot (editor) - 1880

Boston, Massachusetts: Lee and Shepard, 1880. Hardcover--cloth. Good/Without dust jacket. Authorized for use in the Boston Public Schools." 12mo, 6 3/4" tall, ix + 327 pages, with black and white intertextual illustrations gilt titles, decorative green cloth. A good, original hard cover with moderate shelf wear and rubbing at the corners; hinges cracked but secure and internal binding solid, paper moderately yellowed, with occasional child's pencil marking and previous owner's inscription on the front endpaper.