Four separate juvenile titles bound together

The Beautiful Grape Vine by Betsey Saunders, and Many Other Stories Suitable for Sabbath Scholars. [Bound with] The Cowslip Gatherers... [and] The New Year's Sabbath... [and] Short Stories... [Published Anonymously]. [Four Separate Titles, bound as one, with separate title pages, and pagination, for each title].

Boston: Published and sold by James Loring, No. 132 Washington-street, 1827.

Price: $600.00


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First edition, four titles, bound in single publisher's(?) binding [the separate titles were published individually]. Discordantly paginated [unpaginated]; illustrated frontispieces for separate books. 12mo. Four separate juvenile titles bound together. Marbled boards with red cloth spine, lots of rubbing and wear at edges, title inverted, foot of spine is partially perished and corners are moderately worn. Owner's contemporary ink inscription on front flyleaf ("A token of respect from Eliza M. Quick to John P. Mills"). Moderate wear on spine and extremities, spine nicked, with half-inch chip to leather at base of spine, rear hinge cracked and shaken (but intact), rear blank flyleaf torn (with loss to upper third of blank leaf); just a good, sound copy.

Item #346261