first edition Hard Cover
1848 · Boston | Cincinnati
by Mrs. [Pamela Chandler] Colman | [Jacob Abbot; T. S. Arthur; Mrs. F. S. Osgood; Mrs. L. H. Sigourney; Mrs. Caroline Gilman; O. G. Warren; Miss C. M. Sedgwick; Miss. A. A. Gray; Mrs. L. J. Hall; Mrs. A. J. Graves; C. D. Macleod; S. Brown]
Boston | Cincinnati: T. H. Carter | U. P. James, 1848. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Collection of children's stories by noted authors of the genre. With hand-colored frontispiece of a flower, and five inserted plates. Numerous in-text wood engravings, and head- and tail-pieces. With initials surrounded by borders composed of printer's flowers. 128 pp. Marbled boards backed in red cloth with titling in gold. Wear to the board extremities. With the childish signature of Willie Meldrum of Washington. We find less than a dozen copies on OCLC. Very Good binding.
(Inventory #: 282248)