Name/Title
An Old-Fashioned Girl / Louisa M. AlcottEntry/Object ID
2015.7.27Description
Bound for Beauty #1
378 pages, illustrations. No advertisements precede the frontis, 5 pages of advertisements to the rear. Advertisement for Little Women and Hospital Sketches printed on the copyright page.Collection
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' BindingsLexicon
Search Terms
Friendship, 1860s, Fiction, 19th centuryDimensions
Height
6-3/4 inWidth
4-1/2 inBook Details
Author
Louisa May AlcottEdition
FirstPublisher
Roberts BrothersPlace Published
City
BostonState/Province
MassachusettsCountry
United StatesContinent
North AmericaDate Published
1871Printer
Alfred Mudge and SonBinding
Binding Notes
Bound in a dark green cloth binding with gilt titles to cover and spine enclosed within a decorated oval. This is a uniform binding published by Roberts. Illustrated with double frontis plates. Brown stone endpapers.Notes
1870 to copyright and title page. Second printing, second state.Relationships
Related Places
Place
City
BostonState/Province
MassachusettsCountry
United StatesContinent
North AmericaRelated Publications
Publication
Bibliography of American LiteratureNotes
BAL 163Exhibition
Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection