Rushbearing Tale (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 1846. Bound quarter black leather with marbled boards. Daughters of blind basket maker entrusted to water vicar's garden, vandalized for flowers for summer celebration, The narrative itself concerns a group of children unjustly accused of stealing from the vicarage garden the flowers intended to be used as decoration during the event. .36pp.CONDITION: Covers and spine have mild rubbing. Extensive foxing, but text is clear and easily read. Binding and textblock are sound. Inscription and other miscellaneous writing on front flyleaves. Penciled drawing on back flyleaf. Full refund if not satisfied.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Good. Boston: Perkins & Marvin, 1831. 71 pages. Frontispiece signed 'H'. 6 x 3.75", leather spine, marbled paper boards. Daughters of blind basketmaker entrusted to water vicar's garden, vandalised for flowers for summer celebration. Rubbed, foxed, soiled, G.

Second edition. 71pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisherâs printed olive green wrappers. Extremities marked and worn, loss to spine. Near contemporary inked ownership inscription of Mary Watkeys to verso of upper panel, scattered spotting. The apparently unrecorded second edition of an anonymous conduct of life tale for children centred upon the ecclesiastical festival of rushbearing, a ceremony in which a cart laden with rushes is paraded through town before the contents are strewn along the aisles of the local church 'supposed to be a relic of those early times when rushes were used to cover the floors of even the most splendid palaces'. The narrative itself concerns a group of children unjustly accused of stealing from the vicarage garden the flowers intended to be used as decoration during the event. First published in 1829, a third edition of the work appeared in 1835, and a fourth in the 1840s; all are remarkably scarce. Size: 12mo.