Familiar Quotations: being an attempt to trace to their source Passages and Phrases in common use. Sixth edition.
- Boston:: Little, Brown, 1871., 1871
Boston:: Little, Brown, 1871., 1871. 8vo. xii, 778 pp. Contemporary full brown morocco, gilt spine title, blind-tooled covers, raised bands, a.e.g., gilt inner dentelles, marbled endsheets. Early ownership signature of Cora Lee Clark, 1872; bookplate of John Hamilton Rice. Very good. This volume contains a split-double with two cricketing fore-edge paintings of a BOWLER and BATSMAN. Each painting is labelled on the scene itself. This fore-edge painting was commissioned by Harrington’s, with their cost-codes present.
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Title
Familiar Quotations: being an attempt to trace to their source Passages and Phrases in common use. Sixth edition.
Author
[Fore-edge Painting] BARTLETT, John.
Condition
Unknown
Publisher
Little, Brown, 1871.: Boston:
Date
1871