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63, [1] pp. 4-5/8" x 3-3/8" OCLC records just 1 institutional holding of this item (British Library). Significant wear to wrappers (chipping to edges, creasing and age-toning). Paper age-toned. Previous owner's signature to title leaf. A Good example. Brown wrappers printed in black and orange. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve.

i-xiv, 15-190, [2] pages. Hardcover: H 20.25cm x L 15.25cm. Red cloth with decorative black and gilt stamping to spine and front board; rubbing and soiling to beveled-edge boards; color fading to spine with head chipped and shallow loss at frayed heel, front board decorated (in a faux Cosway style) with centerpiece oval paper paste-on (H 10.5cm x L 8.25cm) Victorian-period color image of young child sketching his pet dog - a few nicks at edges with slight chipping at right center edge; some black staining to rear board. All edges gilt. Personal bookplate (probably early 1900s) of Wilfrid Scarborough Jackson on front pastedown; London, England bindery ticket for W. Bone & Son on rear pastedown. Moisture stains at top corner of leaves ever diminishing inward but with additional red color bleed from front board affecting several early leaves too; some soiling, other staining, and foxing. Slender tearing at top 8cm of front hinge's surface paper; binding slightly shaken between pages 190 and succeeding unpaged publisher advertising leaf. 139 uncredited poems accompanied by 118 credited b/w illustrations. Only a good copy at best but still an unusual poetry collection in an interesting British decorative signed binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Kate Greenaway (illustrator). This is an American reprint consisting of two stories bound together: "The Lost Knife", and "A Wet Afternoon" (the illustrations for which are quite similar in style). The book was published in 1884 by Dodd, Mead and Company. Again, it is a reprint . the stories (at least "The Lost Knife") were first published in England, and then there are earlier reprints issued in the United States. Indeed there are several versions of the stories . several binding variants. As we can see from the nature of the illustrations, it is obvious that the plates for the book had been frequently, and heavily used. This was typical of popular juvenile works. According to World Catalog (OCLC), Kate Greenaway contributed the illustrations for this story ("The Lost Knife"). She is not credited in this edition, but the illustrations, at least many of them, are obviously by her hand. The binding on this copy is a generic publisher's trade binding. All the same it has a charm of its own. Dressed in an embossed cloth-covered board binding, colored black on deep ultramarine (blue), the front cover design depicts a boy looking over a fence . behind him is a horse. The boy holds a riding crop. There are flowers in the foreground, and birds roost in the rafters above. The title is lettered in black beneath the boy. In the upper right corner of the front cover is a generic paper paste-down chromolithographic illustration depicting a lovely young girl. TITLE : "The Lost Knife" - bound with - "The Wet Afternoon" AUTHOR : Anonymous - [ but: Richard Handy, as per World Catalog ] ILLUSTRATED : [ Kate Greenaway - As per World Catalog . she is not credited anywhere in this edition] IMPRINT : Dodd, Mead and Company PLACE : New York DATE : (1884) EDITION : American Reprint PHYSICAL DETAILS : Small trade hardcover; Contains numerous line illustrations; 48 pages; 4 1/4" x 6 3/8"; deep ultramarine, cloth-covered boards; the front board is embossed with the details stamped in black. There is a chromolith paper paste-down (color illustration) in the top right corner of the front board, depicting a pretty lass dressed in shawl and bonnet. The rear cover is blank. The spine is blank. The title is lettered in black on the front. CONDITION - GOOD ONLY - This is a previously owned book that remains clean and serviceable. The book has seen much use and has cracked hinges and is considerably shaken. However no leaves are detached, and the whole remains clean and attractive, use considered EXTERIOR : Spine extremities are compressed and moderately abraded, with fraying just starting. Joints are rubbed.Modest surface rub to boards; corner tips are softly bumped. Board edges have a few small nicks. The text-block edges are darkened. BINDING : Much read, the text-block is shaken and hinges cracked, revealing binding thread. No leaves are detached, but the whole is considerably loosened. INTERIOR : Scattered small smudges and spots. Paper throughout is toned. No writing, scribbling or markings. Lacks a rear free end-paper.

Single-sided folded yellow paper sheet. Full dimensions: H 21.7cm x L 9.2cm. OCLC notes poem of 8 stanzas of 8 lines each - however this sheet has, after a prefatory five-line paragraph, a seven stanza poem of 4-4-6-6-6-6-4 lines respectively. Sheet extracted from a book with an 1867 inscription of a Memphis, Tennessee and Oxford, Mississippi dual resident so perhaps two locations of printing possibility and an approximate date. Extrapolating from the OCLC citations, it seems that "The Blind Woman's Appeal" may well have become a generic handout for those afflicted by sight loss and left to panhandling and thus variations/versions migrated around the country during 1860s-1870s. OCLC also notes "A similar work was published, with appropriate gender changes, under [the] title: 'The Blind Man's Appeal.'".

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1184 pages. 6.69x2.31x9.61 inches. In Stock.