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Timothy's quest : a story for anybody, young or old, who cares to read it / by Kate Douglas Wiggin.

Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1890 Wiggin
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Wiggin, Kate Douglas, 1856-1923.
Contributor:
Whitman, Sarah., Binding designer.
Herford, Oliver, 1863-1935, Binding designer.
American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Orphans--Juvenile literature.
Siblings--Juvenile fiction.
Runaway children--Fiction.
Genre:
Juvenile fiction.
Publishers' advertisements -- 1890.
Physical Description:
201 p. ; 19 cm.
Place of Publication:
Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Co., c1890 (Cambridge [Mass.] : The Riverside Press)
Notes:
Publisher's advertisement, listing books by the author: p. [2] at front.
Printer's mark on t.p.
Local Notes:
Athenaeum copy: Original decorated crimson cloth stamped in gold, with the Oliver Herford illustration from p. 42 of the c1894 edition stamped in black [Minsky]; unsigned binding designed by Sarah Wyman Whitman and Oliver Herford.
Cited in:
Allen, Sue. Decorated cloth in America, p. 101
Minsky, Richard. American decorated publishers' bindings, 1872-1929 [electronic resource], v. 1, pg. 102
OCLC:
32154206

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