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1862 Peter Parley's Annual
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Description
Colour Plates, Decorative Binding, Illustrated
A scarce work.
In publisher's original red decorative cloth boards, rebacked with the original spine laid down.
Illustrated with a hand-coloured frontispiece, hand-coloured title page, and six hand-coloured plates, with many in-text engravings. Collated, complete.
With thirty pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear.
A charming annual of short stories and verses, with titles such as: Christmas All the World Round, Dog Tales, Monkey Stories, South African Lion Adventure, and When We Were Boys Together.
Written by Samuel Griswold Goodrich, better known under his pseudonym Peter Parley, an American author.
Edited by William Martin.
Condition
In publisher's original cloth boards, rebacked with the original spine laid down. Externally, sound. Damp staining to rear board. Fading to spine and boards, with slight rubbing to front board, and the odd small mark. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with age toning to edges and spotting. Lacking non illustrated title page. Archival tape repair to frontispiece, and loss to corner of illustrated title page. Folding publisher's advertisement page in half, with the ripped extremity placed inside.
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