The Home Angel / L.B. Urbino

Book

American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.25

Description

239 pages. A very early novel of interracial marriage and a daring topic for any work of fiction at this time, let alone by a female author.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

African Americans, Fiction, 1850s

Dimensions

Height

7-1/2 in

Width

5 in

Book Details

Author

L.B. Urbino

Edition

First

Publisher

Wentworth & Company

Place Published

City

Boston

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1857

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding

Binding Notes

Bound in royal blue blind stamped cloth with a gilt floral vignette to the front board and an elaborately stamped gilt decorated spine. Steel engraved, tissue-guarded frontispiece.

Notes

Owner's name to front endpaper