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The Iris : an illuminated souvenir for MDCCCLI / edited by Professor John S. Hart.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks AY11 .I7 1851
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gift books.
- Chromolithography--Specimens.
- Chromolithography.
- Genre:
- Specimens.
- Gift books -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 19th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861- (donor) (Gift Book Collection copy)
- Werner(?), E. H. (autograph) (Gift Book Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 312 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, music ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Iris : an illuminated souvenir for 1851
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1851, ©1850.
- Contents:
- The star-spirit and the maiden / Julia C.R. Dorr
- The mother and babe / L.H. Sigourney
- Nothing new
- a sonnet / E.C. Kinney
- The shipwreck / Caroline May
- The tryst / Alice Carey
- Sonnet / Phoebe Carey.
- Notes:
- Item illustrated with 4 full-page chromolithographs and various other illustrations.
- "C. Sherman, printer"--Title page verso.
- Chromolithographic plates include: added ill. t.p., presentation plate, list of illustrations plate, and "The Iris Waltz" composed by Miss Augusta Browne.
- Added t.p. title: Iris souvenir for 1851.
- Four plates signed: C. Schuessele, del; Printed in color by P.S. Duval.
- Local Notes:
- Gift Book Collection copy has the autograph, in pencil, of E. H. Werner(?), dated December 3(?), 1852, on the front free endpaper.
- HSP Copy; Lippincott Collection [3104]
- Cited in:
- Faxon, F. W. Literary Annuals and Gift Books, 389
- Thompson, R. Annuals, p. 129
- OCLC:
- 60759202
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