1883 INDIAN SUMMER color chromolithographs poetry L. Clarkson Complete Victorian

Description: EXTERIOR HAS SIGNIFICANT SOILING WITH WEAR THROUGH TO THE EDGES OF THE CLOTH. (PHOTO 1 & 24) SPINE COVER HAS HAD GILT RUBBED OFF BUT REMAINS COMPLETE. (PHOTO 21) ILLUSTRATIONS ON COVERS ARE RUBBED. (PHOTO 1 & 24) FRONT END PAPER HAS A PENCIL PRICE IN CORNER. Easily erased but I did not want to do it on the fragile end papers. (PHOTO 20) FOXING TO BLANK END PAPERS (PHOTO 20) AFTER THE BLACK END PAPERS. BLACK END PAPERS HAVE MINOR SURFACE WEAR (PHOTO 22, 23) AND REAR END PAPER HAS A FULL VERTICAL CREASE (PHOTO 23). ALL CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS ARE PRESENT WITH TWELVE IN FULL COLOR (PHOTOS 5-16) AND FOUR IN DUOTONE (PHOTO 2,3,4,18). TISSUE GUARDS HAVE MINOR PAPER LOSS, RAGGED EDGES IN A FEW INSTANCES (PHOTO 15) WHERE THEY WERE NOT CAREFULLY PLACED BACK IN POSITION (THEY HAVE BEEN NOW). PAGES AND CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS HAVE AGE RELATED PAPER TONING AND THERE IS MINOR FOXING TO A FEW OF THE PRINTED POETRY PAGES. (PHOTO 17) GOLD GILT ON ALL THREE EXPOSED PAGE EDGES. PHOTOS REFLECT ALL ILLUSTRATION PAGES. SEVERAL LEAVES AND ILLUSTRATIONS HAVE A SLIGHT WATER STAIN ON TOP EDGE. (PHOTO 2,3,4 & 17- please inspect all) Victorian book features an attractive decorative cover with decorative golden letters wrapped around autumn flowers highlighted in black silhouette. Includes twelve beautiful full color chromolithographs by L. Clarkson which include October Violets, Wood Asters, and Ferns accompanying a variety of poems by H. W. Longfellow, Alice E. Lord, Ralph Waldo Emerson, etc PLEASE USE ZOOM FUNCTION ON ALL PHOTOS. 835-99

Price: 70 USD

Location: East Norwich, New York

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