Paper (sturdy) bound with strand of gold twine. Title "Holly Leaves" on front textured cover with branches of holly above it. Pages edged in gold. In ink on inside page: "A.?.S. / with H.K.Hs' love-" 2-page title pages: "Holly Leaves/ Christmas Carols and Scripture Greetings." Print is in gold. Green, red and gold holly appears on each page. First section is the Christmas story from the Bible; followed by lyrics to "Good Christian men rejoice" and "Hark the Herald Angels Sing."
E. P.Dutton & Company, 31 West Twenty-Third Street, New York
Book of poems. Stiff cardboard covers with green tape spine. "A Great Pet" with color illustration of a child holding her cat on the cover. Four full-page color illustrations in book with smaller illustrations (line drawings or small sepia-colored) on every page of poems. 12 pp. with print and/or illustrations. 8 poems.
On last page: "Lithographed and printed by E. Nister at Nuremberg. Copyright."
Children's book.
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Wall
Island 3
Storage Cabinet
Unit 14
Storage Container
Box 0121
Location Found
Printing by E.P. Dutton & Co., NY. Lithographs by E. Nister, Nuremberg, Ger
Object Name
Book
Height (cm)
0.3175
Height (ft)
0.0104166667
Height (in)
0.125
Length (cm)
15.9004
Length (ft)
0.5216666667
Length (in)
6.26
Width (cm)
12.7
Width (ft)
0.4166666667
Width (in)
5
Condition
Good
Condition Date
2018-10-31
Condition Notes
Wear on corners and edges. Flyleaf detached. 1st page may be missing.
Cardboard Christmas book, "Peace O'er All The Earth" with snowy church spire on the front cover. Two bells on the back cover. Pages are edged in silver and book is tied with silver twine. 10 pages with text. Small illustrations in black and shades of brown on each page: at top left on left page and lower right on facing page. Star with radiating beams on last page.
Children's book.
Obpacher Brothers, Munich & New York. 1724. (date is not age of book)
Hard-bound book with "The/ Little/ Lame/ Prince/ Mulock" in bold on the aqua-colored tape spine. 2/3 of front and back covered with white and pink blossoms on wavy line background. "THE LITTLE LAME PRINCE AND HIS TRAVELLING CLOAK A Parable for Young and Old" on the title page. The frontispiece is a full-page color illustration of the prince flying in his cloak. Some full-page illustrations and smaller ink drawings throughout this198-page book.
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.
Glossy hardcover book, "Out of Town" by F.E. Weatherly, (beautifully) illustrated in colour by Linnie Watt. Monotints by Ernest Wilson. Durable paper. Table of contents on pages 8 & 9. Fifteen children's rhymes and poems with full-page illustrations on facing pages. 64 pps.
Children's book.
Hildesheimer and Faulkner, 41 Jewin Street E. C., London
Glossy paper cover. "Golden Days A Painting Book" with girl painting at easel on front. "A Few Practical Directions for Colouring" on the back cover. Designed in England. Printed in Holland by Emrick & Binger, London. Frederick Warne & Co. Illustrator Constance Haslewood's drawings commemorate holidays ( St. Valentine's Day, All Hallow's Eve, e.g.), seasons & activities. Alternating double-page spreads with colored picture and copy to be painted. All illustrations have been painted.
Paper book with color illustrations on front cover: "Under the Window Painting Book After Kate Greenaway. Published by Peter G. Thomson, Cincinnati." Back cover lists "New Picture Books" by the same publisher. 16 illustrations on facing pages with 2 to 6 panels to be painted. All 17 pp. in this book have been painted.
Hardcover children's book, "Happy Days Bright and Lively Stories for Young Folks by Favorite Authors" with large color illustration on front cover. Poems and stories "profusely" and beautifully "illustrated with" 14 full-page color "plates and" numerous full-page "fine half-tone engravings" as well as small drawings. No date or page numbers. Some authors cited. Boston, De Wolfe Fiske & Co.
Hardcover children's book with large color illustration on front cover. "Childrens' Stories from Dickens, retold by His Grand-daughter and others. Edited by Edric Vredenburg. Illustrated with full-page color plates and fine half-tone engravings by Frances Brundage, Harold Copping, The Baroness Oresy, J. Willis Grey, Edith Scannell, Major Giles. New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd." Includes "Trotty Veck and His Daughter Meg, Tiny Tim, Little Dombey, The Runaway Couple, Poor Jo!, The Little Kenwigs, Little Dorrit, The Blind Toy-Maker, Little Nell, Little David Copperfield,Jenny Wren and Pip's Adventure. 104 pp.
