Title: Affection's Gift.A love-offering in poetry and prose..
Publisher: Rock Brothers and Payne. London.
Publication Date: 1853
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
192 printed pages. Frontispiece and 7 engraved plates (copy from the library of Ruth E. Adomeit only has 6 engraved plates, facing pages 7, 17, 28, 51, 71 and 136 ).
Original primrose endpapers (contemporary ink inscription on front free endpaper that is dated 1857). Printed by Petter, Duff & Co., Playhouse Yard, Blackfriars, London. 45 x 55 Original red morocco; spine with elaborate stamped gilt lettering and decorations; covers with arabesque and honeysuckle embossed borders - the front in gilt with central titling (lower spinevery slightly rubbed).
Welsh only locates 1853 copy with 190 printed pages (an error, it has 192 printed pages). Not in Bondy, nor Spielmann. Welsh, 68. OCLC, 41528473. WorldCat locates 3 copies worldwide (Pierpont Morgan, Virginia and Indiana University Libraries).
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