Author: Abbott, Jacob. (1803-1879).
Title: Georgie by Jacob Abbott. The Rollo Story Books.
Description: Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Company, (1857). (1857). - Small octavo [approximately 6-3/8 inches high by 4 inches wide], brown cloth titled in gilt on the front cover, in blind on the rear cover & in gilt with decorations in gilt on the spine. The covers are rubbed, bumped & chipped. The head & tail of the spine are chipped & the gilt on the spine is faded. Title, [1] leaf & pages [163]-191. Illustrated with a black-and-white frontispiece & a textual woodcut. There is an owner's faded ink name dated 1868 on the front endpaper. There is light staining to the front & bottom edges of the endpaper & to the front edges of the leaves throughout, with a short tear to the front edge of the flyleaf. There is occasional foxing & soiling. Good.

A separate issue of the sixth story in Abbott's Rollo at Work. Good .

Keywords: CHILDREN'S; JACOB ABBOTT; ROLLO STORY BOOKS; GEORGIE; FRONTISPIECE; WOODCUT; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY.

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