Life's Evening
Boston: Lee and Shepard, ca. 1869. Later printing. Hardcover. Small 4to. [5], 6-265, [5] pp. Full contemporary brown pebbled sheep with black rules and decorations on the boards, gold tooling to the turn-ins, spine in six compartments with gold lettering and black decorations; all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Title page printed in red and black. With a few engraved headpieces. With a four-page leaflet laid in, titled The Three Calls, number 11 in the series, "Leaves of Comfort". This volume is part of the publisher's Cross and the Crown series. A volume of religiously themed poems. Very Good+. Item #000013503
Light rubbing to the boards' edges and a tiny dampspot to the rear blanks. An 1870 gift inscription on the first blank.
Price: $50.00