c1858 · New York
by Bishop, Georgianna M.
New York: Trow's Printing And Bookbinding Company, c1858. Reprint of 1889 "Grandmother's Edition". Very near fine in its original decorated, blue cloth covered boards with gilt text and borders on the spine and black designs on the front board. A 16mo of 6 3/4 by 4 1/2 inches very light rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and at the fore corners of the boards with the remnants of what may have been a book plate tipped-in after the first free end page. An early prior owner wrote her name in ink on the second free end page, at the top of the title page, the last page in the book and at the lower margins of several pages in the book. 160 pages of text. A collection of nine short stories of the Yule time traditions at Christmas in England. (Inventory #: TB31905)