first edition Hardcover. Cloth spine. Paper pastedowns on boards. Thin cord, or string, attaching inner booklet to the outer boards.
Keokuk, Iowa
Keokuk, Iowa: J. C. Hubinger Bros. Co.. First edition. Hardcover. Cloth spine. Paper pastedowns on boards. Thin cord, or string, attaching inner booklet to the outer boards. . Very Good. Scarce -- no copies located on OCLC or elsewhere. N.d., circa 1899. 4to. 25.5 by 21 cm. 16 pp., plus 8 pages of blank card in the center. With front pockets, one large, almost the size of the entire front board, and a smaller pocket above, to be used to store various slips of papers, notes, receipts, etc., as customary in a compact work-oriented organizer/portfolio. With an advertisement for Elastic Starch, the actual product being promoted by the issuance of this Portfolio, on the rear inside cover. Chromolithograhic cover and rear, the front depicting a pretty young woman dressed in a pouffy gown writing a note by a Rococo-style incidental table. The rear features a smaller centerpiece illustration of a gamboling child, framed by flower blossoms. Condition: Edgewear to the cover, with very minor losses to the paper pastedown chromos along their edges. The leaves within, made of a acidic pulp paper stock, are predictably heavily age toned.
(Inventory #: 006514)