A native of Winby and other tales / by Sarah Orne Jewett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909.

Contributor:

Whitman, Sarah., Binding designer.

Houghton, Mifflin and Company., Publisher.

Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.), Printer.

Female Authors of the 19th Century (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--New England--Fiction.

Women.

United States--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.

United States.

New England--Social life and customs--Fiction.

New England.

Genre:

Short stories, American.

Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1893.

Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)

Publishers' advertisements -- 1893.

Fiction.

American fiction -- Women authors.

Fiction -- 19th century.

Physical Description:

309, [5] p. ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, c1893 (Cambridge : The Riverside Press)

Contents:

A native of Winby

Decoration Day

Jim's little woman

The failure of David Berry

The passing of Sister Barsett

Miss Esther's guest

The flight of Betsey Lane

Between mass and vespers

A little captive maid.

Notes:

On prelim. leaf list of author's works.

Publisher's advertisement: p. [2-3] at end.

Publisher's device on t.p.

Cover design attributed to Sarah Wyman Whitman.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Bound in green cloth stamped in gold, maroon endpapers.

Athenaeum copy: Exhibited: "Art Bound: Book Design Past & Present," at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2008.

Athenaeum's copy stamped on t.p.: "Received Nov 13 1893."

Cited in:

Weber & Weber. Sarah Orne Jewett, p. 16

BAL, 10902

Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1876-1900, 2980

Allen, Sue. Decorated cloth in America, p. 103

OCLC:

4375234