[Fine Binding | Virginia Chester] The Biglow Papers E-List 17 from watercolors by Garrett

from watercolors by Garrett

Boston: Samuel E

Spine with five raised bands

Verso of final leaf: "Transcribed in the year 1898 in the Island of Jersey"

"The printing of twelve hundred copies of this book

[Fine Binding | Virginia Chester] The Biglow Papers E-List 17 from watercolors by GarrettLowell, James Russell. The Biglow Papers. With Additional Notes, an Enlarged Glossary, and an Illustration by George Cruikshank London, John Camden Hotten, 1859. Bound in red brown crushed morocco by Virginia Chester with a blind tooled pattern of leaves, dashes, and triangles to front and rear covers. Five bands to spine, with title to second compartment and author to fifth compartment. Wide turn ins with marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Bookplate