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Henry W.Longfellow, John G.Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Cullen Bryant, James Russell Lowell, J.T.Trowbridge, E.P.Whipple, T.W.Higginson, Loisa M.Alcott, Gail Hamilton, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Louise Chandler Moulton, Nora Perry, Sarah Helen Whitman Margaret J.Preston, Bayard Taylor, R.H.Stoddard, Alfred Tennyson, A.C.Swinburne, Charles Kingsley, Tom Taylor, Edward Eggleston, J.W.De Forrest, George Cary Eggleston, William Ellery Channing, J.Boyle O'Reilly, William Winter, Edward S. Rand, Jr. William Mathews, A.Bronson Alcott, Charles Dudley Warner, John Paul, William F.Gill and Frederick Viauxedited by William Fearing Gill
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1884 ©1875xv, [21]- 460 pages, engraved frontispiece (with tissue guard),
dedication to Oliver Wendell Holmes, 21 full-page & 38 other engraved illustrationsby
Alfred Fredericks; Frederick S.Church; Thomas Moran; R.Barnes; E.Therond; Myles Birket Foster; Solomon Eytinge; E.Wimperis; Robert Lewis; Hammatt Billings; H.N.Humphreys & T.Kennedy
bound in publisher's brown diagonal fine rib-grain cloth over beveled boards,
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all page edges giltbrown floral patterned endpapers
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original poems, stories, and essaysby
Henry W.Longfellow, John G.Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Cullen Bryant, James Russell Lowell, J.T.Trowbridge, E.P.Whipple, T.W.Higginson, Loisa M.Alcott, Gail Hamilton, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Louise Chandler Moulton, Nora Perry, Sarah Helen Whitman Margaret J.Preston, Bayard Taylor, R.H.Stoddard, Alfred Tennyson, A.C.Swinburne, Charles Kingsley, Tom Taylor, Edward Eggleston, J.W.De Forrest, George Cary Eggleston, William Ellery Channing, J.Boyle O'Reilly, William Winter, Edward S. Rand, Jr. William Mathews, A.Bronson Alcott, Charles Dudley Warner, John Paul, William F.Gill and Frederick Viauxedited by William Fearing Gill
published in Chicagoby Belford, Clarke & Co.
1884 ©1875xv, [21]- 460 pages, engraved frontispiece (with tissue guard),
dedication to Oliver Wendell Holmes, 21 full-page & 38 other engraved illustrationsby
Alfred Fredericks; Frederick S.Church; Thomas Moran; R.Barnes; E.Therond; Myles Birket Foster; Solomon Eytinge; E.Wimperis; Robert Lewis; Hammatt Billings; H.N.Humphreys & T.Kennedy
bound in publisher's brown diagonal fine rib-grain cloth over beveled boards,
spine titled in self-cloth in etched gilt panels and decorated with laurel leaves,blocked and ruled in gilt and black,
front cover titled in gilt and blocked with laurel leaves, water lilies, wading cranes,an Egyptian portrait and aesthetic movement style decorations blocked in black and gilt
all page edges giltbrown floral patterned endpapers
quarto
A great example of a lavish cloth binding from the Golden Age of American publishing becoming hard to find in as good a condition as this!
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Chapman and Hall. London. 1850. FIRST CHEAP EDITION, with a new preface written by Dickens expressly for this edition. 8vo. Illustrated with wood engraved frontis of steam ship leaving port, by C. Stanfield.Finely bound in nineteenth century half green calf. Spine with raised bands. Compartments with rules and jagged lines and floral centre pieces, all in gilt. Red title label, gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Plain brown endpapers with a small book label of Mills Bookshop of London to the rear paste down endpaper. Some minor rubbing to binding and edges a bit bumped but overall a very good copy.
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Ikebana Arranging Images; Kamata, Soseke, 1950's. A nice publication given to Julia Jane Jeffers Dodge while here husband was helping Japan recover after the war. Her husband Joseph Morrell Dodge had a long and distinguished career and tried to help reform Europe but later wound up as financial advisor to Douglas MacArthur in the economic revitalization of Japan. This edition is in very good condition internally. Photos of Ikebana arrangements by the famous Japan Ikebana master. A gift given to Julia Jeffers Dodge and placed in her library. 38 single sided (double page but other side blank) on high quality Japan paper with photo examples of Ikebana, black and white. A rare publication.
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