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Title: The Children's Story-Book of Good and Great Men
Description: New York, Leavitt & Allen Bros, n.y. Hardcover. 16mo. Brown cloth with ornate gilt lettering and decorations and elaborate black rules and decorations. iv, 256pp, (8pp ads). Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 15 called-for full-page illustrations. Near fine. Faintest whisper of binding edgewear only, else remarkably fresh and bright; contemporary ownership signature on front/rear pastedowns. Superbly tight and handsome later printing (undated but circa 1880) of this "Excelsior Series" volume -- thumbnail biographies of 48 mostly-British males ranging from The Venerable Bede and Sir William Wallace to Benjamin Franklin and George Washington. Charming, with gilt as gleaming as the day published. .
Keywords: Children's
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Title: The Children's Story-Book of Good and Great Men
Description: New York, Leavitt & Allen Bros, n.y. Hardcover. 16mo. Brown cloth with ornate gilt lettering and decorations and elaborate black rules and decorations. iv, 256pp, (8pp ads). Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 15 called-for full-page illustrations. Near fine. Faintest whisper of binding edgewear only, else remarkably fresh and bright; contemporary ownership signature on front/rear pastedowns. Superbly tight and handsome later printing (undated but circa 1880) of this "Excelsior Series" volume -- thumbnail biographies of 48 mostly-British males ranging from The Venerable Bede and Sir William Wallace to Benjamin Franklin and George Washington. Charming, with gilt as gleaming as the day published. .
Keywords: Children's
Price: US$ 45.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 47260
- Book number: 47260
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