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A list of holiday books illustrated and juvenile with a few specimens of illustrations for sale by H.O. Houghton & Co. Riverside, Cambridge, Mass.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Misc Print Collection box 1 no 58
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Booksellers' catalogs--United States--19th century.
- Booksellers' catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, 8 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Hurd and Houghton, publishers, 1869.
- Local Notes:
- "Title-page vignette and 8 wood-engraved illustrations within. A cancel slip on the front notes that the sale is for H. O. Houghton & Co., Cambridge, rather than Hurd & Houghton, New York. Other offerings include four distinct sets of Dickens; The Vagabonds, by J. T. Trowbridge; War Pictures, by F. O. C. Darley; A Forest Hymn, by Bryant; and many others. Laid in is a promotional broadsheet for The Riverside Magazine for Young People, as well as a small boradside notice dated Dec. 1, 1868 noting that the book room of the press will be kept open for retail sales of the firm."--vendor's note.
- Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2016 from Rulon-Miller Books.
- OCLC:
- 1545427168
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