shepherd catharine (4 Ergebnisse)

Square 24mo.; illustrated boards with ribbon binding, hardcover; 21 unnumbered pages each with a lift-the-flap; color illustrations; the boards are edgerubbed and they have small closed tears at both spine ends else very good and including the Important page and the To the Reader that is laid in.

SHEPHERD, Catharine. MY LADY'S TOILETTE TABLE. Philadelphia: C.H. Graves Co., [1911]. 24mo., pictorial boards, bound with ribbon through three punch holes- as issued. Facsimile Edition. A series of illustrations, designed and executed more than a century ago and presented by Shepherd to a favorite niece. Essentially an early pop-up book, the text consists of various passages on etiquette with a small window on most pages that, when lifted, reveal words such as "Innocence" or "Good Humour." Very Good. $75.00.

Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. Early edition. Reading copy only. Title page detached, but present. Slightly dampstained. (young women, manners, virtues).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Facsimile reprint. 24mo. Approximate measurements: 5 1/2" x 5 1/4". Pictorial papercovered boards bound with silk string. Fully working illustrations flip-open to reveal a virtue. Extremities of boards and spine worn and nicked, faint stains on boards, still a very good copy. Publisher's note laid in.