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The Illuminated tablet.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Sp-F 3439
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Albums.
- Autograph albums.
- Genre:
- Gift books -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Van Kirk, S. Frances (donor) (Gift Book Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Tablet PU
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : [J.C. Riker], [not after 1856]
- Summary:
- Published as an autograph book with poems, stories, color lithographs, and many blank leaves.
- Contents:
- The haunted spring
- Music / by Camilla Toulmin
- The gondola / by Miss Alicia Jane Sparrow
- View on the Hudson / by B. Simmons
- The orphans / by Dr. Beattie
- Gipsey children caught in a storm / by Emmeline Stuart Wortley
- The gleaner / by Miss Power
- The token / by E. Sargent
- Marguerite
- The orphan boy.
- Notes:
- Includes eleven leaves of chromolithograph plates signed "T. Sinclair, Phila." and "Dreser, ft."
- First leaf of plates, entitled "evening", also signed "J.C. Riker, New York"; John C. Riker is listed in New York city directories from 1828 to 1858.
- Local Notes:
- Gift Book Collection has the illustrated gilt, embossed title leaf trimmed and mounted on green paper wrapper.
- OCLC:
- 19528636
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