THE IRIS: An Illuminated Souvenir, for MDCCCLIII.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1853. First edition. "Gift book." Large 8vo elaborately gilt-stamped brown leather boards with inset floral title design on both covers; all edges gilt; 314 pp. Illustrated with two chromolithographic (i.e., colored) plates by Christian Schussele -- a presentation plate and an extra illustrated title page -- both of which were printed by P.S. Duval & Co., Philadelphia, plus 10 full-plate black-and-white engravings including frontis. Includes stories and poems from a veritable who's who of women published in this period, as well as a number of anonymous pieces (who's who?). Spine a little rubbed and faded with scant loss at base where there is also an apparent repair, dampstain to lower corners of first third or so pages, otherwise very good,
Item #71563
Price: $300.00