Author: EVANS (Edmund):
Title: The Illuminated Scripture Text Book. with Interleaved Diary for Memoranda and a Coloured Illustration for Every Day and A Coloured Illustration for Every Day. [The Sixth Edition.)
Description: London: Frederick Warne and Co., Bedford Street, Stand, 1880. 16mo, 104 x 67 mms., pp. [viii] 9 - 108, including half-title, title-page in red and black, full-page engraved frontispiecewith the recto of every leaf bearing four chromolithographic illustrations for a total of 365 illustrations, a faint note in pencil recording a purchase date of 1990, inscribed on recto of blank leaf before title -page, "Sarah Fulbrook/ with best wishes,/ from her loving/ friend/ Ruth Pope," several annotations in pencil on the interleave; bound in contemporary embossed cloth with title in gilt on front board and spine; corners and binding a bit worn, but a good copy. OCLC lists 8 copies of a Kirkus Technologies, Inc. reprint; and three copies only of Warne's sixth edition, in the Library of Congress and two at Manchester Metropolitan University. Library Hub adds Cambridge for this edition. The BL has copies of editions printed in 1872 and 1873, but no copies of this 1880 edition in any UK or Irish library.

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