Rev Burchard (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No date in imprint; published circa 1850.The is volume's condition is rated Fair chiefly because the spine leather is gone. Book is shaken, with joints cracked and hinges intact; binding is very worn; edges of binding are chipped and rubbed; corners bumped; interior has foxing and soil. Both covers have gilt decorated panel with vertically oriented oval title decoration; surrounding the gilt panels are blind-tooled border decorations. 263 p., with frontispiece ("Beauty"), a "Presented to" color lithograph plate that has not been filled out, plus four more leaves of plates; all outer edges are gilt. Aside from the bare, chipped spine and wear at edges of binding, the cover gilt decorations are quite nice. Size: 7 3/8 x 5 1/8 inches. [otob: 2r].

First (only) edition. Orig. leather-covered boards with heavy gilt decoration. The spine has the date 1847 as part of the decoration, so the book appears to have been sold in successive years in differently dated bindings. Small 8vo, all edges gilt. Ten plates, in addition there is an extra frontispiece with a hand-colored engraving, a portrait of a gentleman, presumably the editor, surrounded by a wreath. Laid into the book is a folk-art bookmark, a cutout hand constructed from two sheets of paper, the hand of plain paper and a cuff on lined paper, the two held together with a pin. Condition near very good, joints rubbed, spine rubbed and with a small tear at top, some foxing, especially of the plate guards. Small pencil ownership inscription dated 1847 at Greenfield, Massachusetts on front blank. Contributions by Horace Greeley, Lydia H. Sigourney, Fanny "Forester," and numerous others whose names we do not recognize. Variety of contributions, one on a trip to Niagara Falls in 1838. Includes a translation of a story by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. The editor was pastor of the Houston St. Church, New York City. From a Vermont family library with a number of unusually well preserved nineteenth- and early twentieth-century books. Search on the keyword "Victorian" for other titles.