shepherd catharine (8 resultados)

Paper Covered Boards. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The paper boards have decorative stripes of green with an oval vignette of a woman in front of her dressing table, the title is gilt and it is held together with yarn. The spine has split, the corners are bumped and self worn; the spine ends are worn and bumped. The endpapers are clean and the extra paper which says Important is still attached. The wonderful colored drawings have little pieces on them that can be lifted up and there is a word printed under each one. This is a lovely little book for a collector. Not paginated.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. The cover and pages are nice but it is missing two of the three ribbons that hold the book together. Book has inscription "From Frank Eliot, Grandson of the Founder of Washington University and Mary Institute (St. Louis MO) " Pages are nice and clean.

Square 24mo.; illustrated boards with ribbon binding, hardcover; 21 unnumbered pages each with a lift-the-flap; color illustrations; the boards are edgerubbed and they have small closed tears at both spine ends else very good and including the Important page and the To the Reader that is laid in.

SHEPHERD, Catharine. MY LADY'S TOILETTE TABLE. Philadelphia: C.H. Graves Co., [1911]. 24mo., pictorial boards, bound with ribbon through three punch holes- as issued. Facsimile Edition. A series of illustrations, designed and executed more than a century ago and presented by Shepherd to a favorite niece. Essentially an early pop-up book, the text consists of various passages on etiquette with a small window on most pages that, when lifted, reveal words such as "Innocence" or "Good Humour." Very Good. $75.00.

Condición: Fair. Acceptable condition. Early edition. Reading copy only. Title page detached, but present. Slightly dampstained. (young women, manners, virtues).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Facsimile reprint. 24mo. Approximate measurements: 5 1/2" x 5 1/4". Pictorial papercovered boards bound with silk string. Fully working illustrations flip-open to reveal a virtue. Extremities of boards and spine worn and nicked, faint stains on boards, still a very good copy. Publisher's note laid in.

We were unable to learn much information about the Catharine Shepherd from the resources available to us, though OCLC gives her dates as 1788-1848. Each leaf of My LadyÕs Toilette contains rhyming verses telling of an attribute that is becoming to a proper young woman. On the manuscript title-page, Shepherd writes, ÒMy LadyÕs Toilette: Whose adorning let it not be that outward / adorning of wearing of gold but let it be even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God of great priceÓ (f. [3]). Twentyfourmo (5.25Ó x 5.5Ó). [22] ff. printed on heavy paper. Twenty-color illustrations of jewelry, flowers, and containers with a hinged flap, which, when lifted, reveals a different virtue (i.e. Òmodesty,Ó Ògood humour,Ó ÒcontentmentÓ). Twenty-color illustrations of jewelry, flowers, and containers with a hinged flap, which, when lifted, reveals a different virtue (i.e. Òmodesty,Ó Ògood humour,Ó ÒcontentmentÓ). A near fine copy in the original very good glassine dust jacket with a few small chips and a single, closed tear, scarce in the very good original publisherÕs gift box that has some light wear and very minor soiling. First edition, a facsimile of the original manuscript that consists of a series of illustrations, designed and executed by the author, and presented to her niece. The title page notes that the original, Òwhich is a treasured heirloom, is yellow with age and the ink somewhat faded, but the water colors.indicate considerable talent and artistic and artistic ability.Ó It is dedicated to the author, Òthe fair Colonial Belle who more than a century ago conceived and executed these quaintly appropriate illustrationsÓ (f. [2]).

(VIRGINIA) SHEPHERD, Catharine. A COLONIAL BELL'S MESSAGE (MY LADY'S TOILETTE.) Philadelphia: C.H. Graves, (1911). Square 8vo. Pictorial boards, ribbon ties publisher's box with spider-web glassine protective inner sheets. 4 leaves of text, 20 plates. "The original of this book is a century-old heirloom in a cultured Southern family." Catharine Shepherd drew and colored elements from a lady's toilette adding a moral inscription beneath. The point of the moral is also in the illustration itself, hidden by ingenious overlays. It was reprinted here, wi faithfully recreated overlays. The book is very fragile but this copy is in fine condition, in the original publisher's embossed box. A rare survivor.