By: Shephard, Catharine
Price: $100.00
Publisher:
Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs & Co.: 1911
Edition: First
Seller ID: 001412
Binding: Hardcover and with box
Condition: Very Good
With 22 leaves of card stock, 20 of which contain an illustration which features a flap which when lifted reveal a word. A series of illustrations, designed and executed more than a century prior to 1911 by Catharine Shephard of Virginia and presented to her favorite neice, we are told on the title page. This is a reproduction of the "treasured heirloom" and a charming specimen of fin-de-siecle nostalgia for the Early Republic, the Georgian and Regency Eras. Bound together with a ribbon. Some light soilage on the covers, which are paper pasted onto boards. The ribbon is newer. Wi...
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