Item #002508 The Biglow Papers: by James Russell Lowell with additional notes, an enlarged glossary, and coloured illustrations by George Cruikshank [First series]. James Russell Lowell.
The Biglow Papers: by James Russell Lowell with additional notes, an enlarged glossary, and coloured illustrations by George Cruikshank [First series]
The Biglow Papers: by James Russell Lowell with additional notes, an enlarged glossary, and coloured illustrations by George Cruikshank [First series]
The Biglow Papers: by James Russell Lowell with additional notes, an enlarged glossary, and coloured illustrations by George Cruikshank [First series]

The Biglow Papers: by James Russell Lowell with additional notes, an enlarged glossary, and coloured illustrations by George Cruikshank [First series]

London: John Camden Hotten, 1861. Cruikshank, George. Hardcover. Second English edition. xvi, 200, [8] p.: frontispiece and 2 additional leaves of plates, all hand-colored; 18 cm. Contemporary dark blue crushed French levant with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled spine title. Top page edges gilt. Gilt-tooled turn-ins. Blue fabric endpapers. Dark blue ribbon bookmark. Small binder's stamp on front free endpaper verso: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Notice concerning the illustrations formerly inserted between frontispiece and title page, now loose. At head of title: The Choicest Humorous Poetry of the Age. Publisher's advertisements on 8 unpaginated pages following text. Bound in following the advertisements are the original publisher's cloth binding. Cohn, George Cruikshank, 518; BAL, 13275. First series, with preface by J.C. Hotten dated 1859 and reproduction of the American title page to the 4th edition. In Very Good+ Condition: edges lightly rubbed; frontispiece partially separated at head; clean and tight. Very Good +. Item #002508

Price: $75.00

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