Item #003744 Aunt Louisa's Holiday Guest: Comprising, Dame Trot and Her Cat, Good Children, Bruin the Bear, Home for the Holidays; with twenty-four pages of illustrations, printed in colours by Kronheim. Laura Valentine.
Aunt Louisa's Holiday Guest: Comprising, Dame Trot and Her Cat, Good Children, Bruin the Bear, Home for the Holidays; with twenty-four pages of illustrations, printed in colours by Kronheim
Aunt Louisa's Holiday Guest: Comprising, Dame Trot and Her Cat, Good Children, Bruin the Bear, Home for the Holidays; with twenty-four pages of illustrations, printed in colours by Kronheim
Aunt Louisa's Holiday Guest: Comprising, Dame Trot and Her Cat, Good Children, Bruin the Bear, Home for the Holidays; with twenty-four pages of illustrations, printed in colours by Kronheim

Aunt Louisa's Holiday Guest: Comprising, Dame Trot and Her Cat, Good Children, Bruin the Bear, Home for the Holidays; with twenty-four pages of illustrations, printed in colours by Kronheim

London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1872. Hardcover. [30] leaves of text interspersed with [24] leaves of color plates: wood-engravings; 27 cm. Original dark green cloth with gilt stamped spine and cover titles; gilt and black stamped cover illustration and decoration. Imprint includes: New York: Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong. Date taken from English Catalogue of Books. Publisher's device printed on title page. Colour wood-engraved plates include areas printed in colour with metal. All are unsigned and without imprint. Plates and text are separated by guard sheets. "Aunt Louisa" was a pseudonym of Laura Valentine, general editor of Warne's publishing house. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "Jennie Z. Banks Presented by her Uncle C. Jack Christmas 1874." Each story includes one double-page illustration. In Very Good Condition: corners are rubbed with minor fraying; front joint rubbed with 1-cm. split in cloth; back board slightly rubbed; front is clean and bright; finger-soiling on a few guard pages and one page of text; otherwise clean and bright. Very Good. Item #003744

Price: $325.00

See all items in Children's Books, Women Writers
See all items by