Tuesday, April 1, 2014

1893 FIRST EDITION - SUCH AS THEY ARE BY THOMAS AND MARY HIGGINSON - BINDING DESIGN BY SARAH WYMAN WHITMAN

1893 FIRST EDITION

SUCH AS THEY ARE

POEMS BY THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON AND MARY THACHER HIGGINSON

ILLUSTRATED

*** RARE ANTIQUE FIRST EDITION ~ EMBOSSED SILVER GILT FINE BINDING ~ ARTS & CRAFTS STYLE BINDING DESIGNED BY SARAH WYMAN WHITMAN ~ CLASSIC POETRY ***

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893.
Printed by University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.

• First Edition - title page date matches copyright date - no additional printings listed
• measures about 7'' x 5.5''
• beautiful green cloth Arts & Crafts style fine binding by designer Sarah Wyman Whitman
• ornate embossed silver gilt stamping
• textblock all edges gilt
• illustrated with full-page plates



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