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WHITNEY, A.D.T. - Mother Goose for Grown Folks

Title: Mother Goose for Grown Folks
Description: Boston, Loring, Publisher, 1870. Hardcover. Illustrations by Augustus Hoppin and Hammatt Billings. Small 8vo. Green ornately blind-embossed cloth with elaborate gilt lettering and rules. iv, 144pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece + engraved second title page, full-page plates. Very good. Quite mild edgewear; old but neat and discreet expert brown cloth tape hinge reinforcement on brown endpapers. Attractive reprint edition of this 1860 (New York: Rudd & Carleton) volume, here subtitled "A Christmas Reading" on the engraved title page and noted as "A New, Revised, and Enlarged Edition" on the regular title page. Adeline Dutton Train Whitney (1824-1906) wrote a handful of popular volumes, mainly poetry for girls. .

Keywords: Poetry Children's

Price: US$ 45.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 45624

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