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Comments and Notes: near Good hardcover/no dust jacket - Boston: Taggard & Thompson, 29 Cornhill, 1863 - 32mo/4 3/8"/11cm. tall x 3"/7.5 cm. - blindstamped dec green covers with gilt dec spine - b&w frontis, title page ill, text ills - gilt moderately faded, tiny edge tear at backstrip, corner wear to front cover bottom edge with small chip at backstrip - interior has faint dampstain on first few pages, a signature loosening; gift inscription to child from teacher Hattie Sherwood; otherwise interior near Very Good - 48pp. Appears to be intended as a gift for a teacher to give to students. Contents: John in Search of a Place [Job]; Lead Us Not Into Temptation; Birds; Insect Life & Its Lesson; The Two Pictures; A Bad Sign; The Penknife; The Lame Boy; Flowers & Weeds; Things That Have Wings; 2 Hymns. 1863 Reprint of a book registered in Boston by Brown, Taggard & Chase in 1857. © Copyright Periplus Line LLC | Updated: 12/30/2009 |
