Rollo's Travel / Jacob Abbott

Book

American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

Rollo's Travel / Jacob Abbott

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.8

Description

189 pages, [1] leaf of plates, illustrations.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

Steamboats, Juvenile fiction, Gift book, 1850s

Dimensions

Height

6 in

Width

3-3/4 in

Book Details

Author

Jacob Abbott

Edition

New and Revised

Publisher

Phillips, Sampson,

Place Published

City

Boston

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1850

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding

Binding Notes

Engraved frontis. Bound in blue cloth with a central blind stamped scene of three children within a multiple ruled border. Repeated to rear. Gilt stamping and decoration to spine.

Notes

On spine: Rollo books. Inscription: "Presented to Lendall Titcomb for improvement in Penmanship, by Samuel Brown. August 30th, 1856."