Description: The Boy’s and Girl’s Pictorial Museum, Fisher & Brother, Philadelphia, circa 1850, 96 pp, 96 pp, colored frontispiece with over 270 woodcut engravings, publisher’s blind red cloth, 5.5 x 4.75”, 18mo. In good condition. Nice considering its age and that is was intended for children. Light wear to extremities with scuffing along corners and joints. End bands lightly crushed with minor loss. Bookpalte of Maurice Robert De Marais on front pastedown. Des Marais was a longtime faculty member in the Department of Architecture at Penn State College of Arts and Architecture and a corporate member of the American Institute of Architects. Old hand ownership of Ellis B. Reeves of Phoenixville, Pa dated Valentine’s Day 1862. Front gutter tender. Frontispiece is bright and clean. Interior lightly toned with minor instances of age-staining. Free of known markings. Binding intact. Please see photos. We can find no other copies for sale at this present time. Lovely early book in nice shape, quite scarce. COLK1850BKLD
Price: 350 USD
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
End Time: 2025-01-30T16:20:20.000Z
Shipping Cost: 5.38 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Year Printed: 1850
Topic: Nursery Books
Binding: Cloth
Subject: Children's
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Publisher: Fisher & Brother
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
