The Backwoods Boy; Or, The Boyhood and Manhood of Abraham Lincoln / Horatio Alger
Entry/Object ID
2015.7.211
Description
Bound for Beauty #27
307, [8] p., [1] leaf of plates, frontis : ill.
Book advertisements at rear.
Other titles in the same binding/color by Street & Smith in 1900, part of its Boys' Own Library Series.
Collection
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Lexicon
Search Terms
1900s
Dimensions
Height
7-1/2 in
Book Details
Author
Horatio Alger, Jr
Publisher
D. McKay
Place Published
City
Philadelphia
State/Province
Pennsylvania
Country
United States
Continent
North America
Date Published
circa 1883
Binding
Binding Type
Publisher's Binding- Poster Style
Binding Notes
Binding circa 1900. Green cloth binding with red, black, green and gilt decoration and lettering to front cover and spine. Cover depicts Lincoln as young boy holding riding crop, wearing riding boots, within a rectangle of gilt tree and river scene. Motif repeated on spine.
Notes
Later reprint edition, no addition printings noted.
Originally published in 1883 under title: Abraham Lincoln, the backwoods boy.
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Abraham Lincoln
Exhibition
Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection
