Home Garner, or the Intellectual and Moral Store House, Gathered for the Family Circle from the Rich Experience of Many Faithful Reapers

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Steel engravings and woodcuts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 434 pages; 1855 J. B. Lippincott. HC presumed 1st edition. Sound binding of original red cloth with decorative borders and panels in blind to sides and title design in gilt to spine. Illustrated with 3 tissue guarded steel engraved plates and with in-text woodcuts; one plate torn out and lacking with the tissue guard remaining. Extra engraved title page at front. A signature mid-book starting at the front edge. Cloth with shallow chipping and loss at spine ends; some of the cloth appears to have been put back in place with the assitance of archival PVA. Corners bumped, rubbed and softened with rubthrough to the cloth. A husband's 1855 gift inscription to his wife on the front flyleaf. Scattered mild finger soiling and reader evidence but generally bright and clean. A collection of essays, poems and stories intended for instruction on matters of etiquette, behavior, education and Christian morality. Quite uncommon. This example Good or better only. N° de ref. del artículo 52662

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