Blue hardcover large-font children's story/book: "Mammy Tittleback and her Family," by "H."H." Gold picture of girl with 4 kittens on front cover. Boston: Roberts Bros.,1881. "A True Story of Seventeen Cats," Mammry Tittleback's genealogical tree is on page 7. Illustrations by Addie Ledyard include chapter headings and full-page ink drawings throughout the book. Music & lyrics for "The Old Black Cat" (from the "Scholarly Magazine," March, 1873) followed by "Preface" at the end. 101 pp.
Paperback "Painting Book Playful Children. Copyrighted 1888 by Mc Loughlin Bro's New York." Color illustrations on front and back covers. Inside front cover is "Hints to Little Painters" with facing page of three colored illustrations that appear in the book.
Single-sided illustrations with captions for painting. All but 4 have been painted. Advertisements and prices for children's toys and games fill inside back cover.
"The Decorative Sisters, a modern Ballad" by Josephine Pollard with illustrations by Walter Satterlee was published in New York by Anson D.F. Randolph & Co. in 1881. Many full-page color illustrations including both covers. Dorothea and Dorinda were English sisters.
Date Range
1881
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Wall
Island 3
Storage Cabinet
Unit 14
Storage Container
Box 0121
Object Name
Book
Length (cm)
24.4475
Length (ft)
0.8020833333
Length (in)
9.625
Width (cm)
19.05
Width (ft)
0.625
Width (in)
7.5
Condition
Good
Condition Date
2018-12-05
Condition Notes
Wear on cover corners; some wear along cover edges. Front cover separating from book along inside front of spine.
"Chatterbox" was published in Boston by Estes & Laurait, 301 Washington Street in 1884. "Contents" lists "the great variety of original Stories, Sketches, and Poems for the Young, and every illustration which appears in it is expressly designed for this work, by the most eminent English artists." 412 pp. Front cover and frontispiece are color illustrations. Book illustrations and ornate initial letters are black and white. Advertisements fill inside covers and back outside cover.
Flyleaf inscribed "Lillian Sprecher/ from/ Mama/ Aug. 8, 1885."
"Lilliput Land; With Hundreds of Pictures" printed in black ink on the spine. On Illustrated front cover: "Lilliput Land or Peep-show for the Young, edited by the Author of Lilliput Levee, New York: Baker, Pratt & Co." On reverse of the series title page: "London: Printed by McCorquodale and Co." 300 black and white illustrations. An index in the front of this British narrative book lists contents of Serial Stories and Sketches, Prose, Poems, Musical pages and Illustrations. 384 pp. This book "aims to provide Literature for the young." Children's book.
Inscribed: "Lillian M. Sprecher/ bought at/ South Bend, In/ Oct, 1881."
Some pieces of glued-on illustrated front cover are missing. Missing pieces from plain back cover reveal printing beneath. Cover edges, corners are worn. A few pages have missing pieces on lower edge/corners.
"Play-Time/ Sayings and Doings/ of/ Baby-Land/ by Edward Stanford" is a hardcover children's picture book published in London by Chatto & Windu, Piccadilly. Color illustrations on both covers. Children's rhymes and vividly-colored illustrations (by 'Es') on each of 37 pages.
Back of title page inscribed:" Lillian M. Sprecher/ from Mama./ December 25.1888."
Attractive British children's book fringed in white with white tassel and cord along spine. Color illustrations on covers. Pages edged in gold. "Bells Across The Snow" by Frances Ridley Havergal was published in NY by E.P. Dutton and Company, 1884. A page lists14 black and white illustrations. Minimal text. Entire 4 verses printed on next to last page.
Small German language clothbound hardback child's book with title stamped in gold within an oval: "Das goldene ABC. / zur / Nachfolge Christi". Green covers also stamped with outer border on front and back. Title page has gold printed title within outer border and decoration: "Das goldene ABC. / Fur unser Jugend". Large image of a seated Christ at center and "Pilger-Buchhandlung, Reading, Pa." below.
Inner pages have large Old English font letter on left page illuminated with scenes from the life of Christ and on right page a corresponding religious subject beginning with that letter of the alphabet, along with Bible verses and religious citations. The letters I, X and Y are not represented.
Inscribed in ink inside front cover is "Johnnie Sachs / Dec. 25, 1882". This was likely John Sachs, Jr. of Lancaster City, born 1874 (see file).
Covers have moderate abrasion and wear. Bindings loose with detaching title page. Page with letter "A" has stitched repair where torn. Some soil and stains throughout.
One of a set of three toiletry tools with mother-of-pearl handles and steel shanks. This glove button hook has a round, tapering shank with a hook at the end. The handle widens and flattens out to a rounded terminal.
One of a set of three toiletry tools with mother-of-pearl handles and steel shanks. This tool has a round swell going to a very thin end with tiny hook. It is perhaps a corset hook. The handle widens and flattens out to a rounded terminal.
Lithograph? 2-part marriage certificate in black ink with gold border elements. 2 printed colored flowers are visible through 2 oval cutouts. Certificate announces the marriage of Alice Fisher and John B. Herr.
One of a set of three toiletry tools with mother-of-pearl handles and steel shanks. Most of tool length comprises a stout file. Tip extends to a shart point for cleaning fingernails. Shell handle widens and flattens out to a rounded terminal.
Handmade rectangular grater crudely fashioned with tinned sheet iron and having 14 staggered slits of 1.25" width and raised edges for cutting. All four edges are folded to back, but the two long sides are rolled over wire to stiffen length of tool.
Crudely fashioned tin tool has wear and imperfections at blades and back corners. Abrasions and corrosion scattered overall. Peeling paint or corrosion.
