An Old-Fashioned Girl / Louisa M. Alcott

Name/Title

An Old-Fashioned Girl / Louisa M. Alcott

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.27

Description

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' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

Friendship, 1860s, Fiction, 19th century

Dimensions

Height

6-3/4 in

Width

4-1/2 in

Book Details

Author

Louisa May Alcott

Edition

First

Publisher

Roberts Brothers

Place Published

City

Boston

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1871

Printer

Alfred Mudge and Son

Binding

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

Boston

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Related Publications

Publication

Bibliography of American Literature

Notes

BAL 163

Exhibition

Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection