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Farm ballads. By Will Carleton ; illustrated.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1873 Carleto
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carleton, Will, 1845-1912.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Domestic--United States--Pictorial works.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Interior decoration--United States--Pictorial works.
- Interior decoration.
- Genre:
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1873.
- Physical Description:
- 108 p. illus., plates. 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, Harper & Brothers, 1873.
- Contents:
- Betsey and I are out
- How Betsey and I made up
- Gone with a Handsomer man
- Johnny rich
- Out of the old house, Nancy
- Over the hill to the poor-house
- Over the hill from the poor-house
- Uncle Sammy
- Tom was goin' for a poet
- Goin' home to-day
- Out o' the fire
- The new church organ
- The editor's guests
- The house where we were wed
- Our army of the dead
- Apple-blossoms
- Apples growing
- One and two
- The fading flower
- Autumn days
- Death-doomed
- Up the line
- How we kept the day.
- Notes:
- Some illus. depict 19th century domestic interiors.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gold stamped brown pebble-grain cloth" -- Minsky.
- Athenaeum copy: Image of a couple in a field in center circle, surrounded by branches.
- Athenaeum copy: Gift: R.W. Moss, 1988.
- Cited in:
- Minsky, Richard. American decorated publishers' bindings, 1872-1929 (electronic resource), v. 1, pg. 77
- OCLC:
- 271382
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