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Songs of animal life : poems / by Mary Howitt ; with ninety illustrations by Giacomelli.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 2340
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham), 1799-1888.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animals--Juvenile poetry.
- Animals.
- Seasons--Juvenile poetry.
- Seasons.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Helsby, Reginald (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 10-128 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Edinburgh ; and New York : Thomas Nelson and Sons, [between 1880 and 1889?]
- Notes:
- Signatures: [1]⁸ 2-8⁸.
- Press number ("(655)") on first leaf of each gathering.
- Binding: full blue cloth; left board has title ("Songs of Animal Life") stamped in dark blue with red and dark blue initials and statement of responsibility ("Poems by Mary Howitt") stamped in dark blue, the whole illustrated with a squirrel crouched on an oak branch with leaves and nuts in dark blue, three birds above in dark blue, and a sun with rays in red; right board has publisher's monogram stamped in dark blue; title stamped in gold on spine between blue and gold rules and gold floriate decorations (the lower on a blue background); red floriate decoration between red and blue rules at head of spine; statement of responsibility in blue above red illustration of a beaver(?) beneath foliage beside a stream; "100 Engravings" stamped in blue above blue rules and floriate decoration at foot of spine.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has autograph ("Reginald Helsby age 13 yrs.") in pencil on half-title leaf, possibly to be identified with Reginald Helsby (1873-1939) and to be dated ca. 1886.
- Schimmel Collection copy: left board damaged.
- OCLC:
- 1432031099
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