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A LIST OF PRE-1891 EXAMPLES OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN PUBLISHERS' PRINTED BOOK-JACKETS, SLIP-CASES, AND OTHER DETACHABLE COVERINGS
  
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A LIST OF PRE-1891 EXAMPLES OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN
PUBLISHERS' PRINTED BOOK-JACKETS, SLIP-CASES, AND
OTHER DETACHABLE COVERINGS

THIS list does not attempt to be a census of all surviving examples; it is simply
a record of those that have come to my attention over a period of
more than thirty-five years. But because it is a sizable list (with nearly four
hundred entries), it provides a reasonable body of evidence for generalizing
about the history of publishers' detachable coverings through 1890. (A list
covering the next decade will be published later.) It also gives one a basis
for extrapolation: by noting which publishers are known to have used jackets
or slip-cases in particular years, one is in a better position to conjecture
whether any other book from the same period was likely to have had such a
covering at the time of its publication. (In the case of series, one can be nearly
certain that the other titles in a series, in addition to those listed here, had
jackets; but the list records only the specific titles known to have survived in
jackets.)

Entries are arranged chronologically, and within each year they are ordered
alphabetically by publisher (then author). The year of each entry is the
date of the copy cited, which may be later than the date of the first printing.
I have generally repeated the dates given in my sources without further investigation
(which would in any case probably be inconclusive without the
copies at hand); but when I have reason to suspect that the year assigned by
a source is based on a copyright-page date and that the book may possibly be
from a later printing, I have placed an asterisk after the citation. Copies that
have been assigned approximate dates are listed separately at the end. The
serial numbers assigned to the entries consist of the last two digits of the year,
followed—after a period—by consecutive numbers within the year. (For the
two eighteenth-century entries, all four digits of the year are used; and for
entries in the "Approximate Dates" section, an "X" replaces the year-digits.)

The amount of information in the entries varies considerably, depending
on what was available in my sources and notes. Each entry normally has four
parts (though the third is lacking in some instances). (1) Publisher and city
(usually excluding the names of any secondary publishers or cities mentioned
in imprints). (2) Author, title, and (if applicable) series or edition (with the
names of editors, illustrators, and translators selectively added). (3) A brief
description of the jacket and/or slip-case, indicating (when my information
allows) the color (if other than white, gray, tan, or cream), the surfaces containing
printed matter (with unusual features of the content mentioned),
and the color of the printing (when other than black). (4) Source(s), including
institutional libraries, private collections (with years signifying the latest
date when to my knowledge the books were in those collections), dealers'


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and auction-house catalogues, published articles and books, and private letters
or conversations; when the citations (in all these categories) are brief,
they are usually identified more fully in the index. Published illustrations
are referred to in the following entries: 03.1, 23.1, 24.3, 26.2, 27.2-3, 28.1-2,
29.1, 30.2, 32.1, 44.1, 46.1, 57.2, 60.3, 61.1, 65.1, 69.4, 70.2, 73.1, 76.3, 78.2,
78.6, 78.9, 82.8, 86.5, 86.13, 88.5, 89.24.

The following symbols are used to signal entries for detachable coverings
other than jackets of the now conventional type:

         
§  envelope or all-over wrapping 
¢  cloth jacket(s) 
†  sheath or box 
‡  box and paper jacket(s) 
†¢  box and cloth jacket(s) 

The index to the list is subdivided as follows: (1) Authors, editors, illustrators,
and translators (plus personal-name subjects, and titles without named
authors). (2) Publishers and series: British (London); British (other than
London); American (New York); American (other than New York). (3) Libraries.
(4) Collectors. (5) Dealers and auction houses. (6) Scholars (and other
persons who have provided information, not covered under previous headings,
in published or unpublished form).

1791

 
§ 1791.1.  Zachariah Poulson (Philadelphia). John William Gerar de Brahm,
Time: An Apparition of Eternity. Four-flapped envelope wrapping,
printed lengthwise on inside with a 115-word presentation
epistle dated 1791, to be signed by the author. [Lilly; discussed by
Josiah Q. Bennett in ". . . and other detachable coverings . . .,"
Serif, 8.4 (December 1971), 31-33.] 

1795

 
† 1795.1.  [OMITTED]

1801

 
† 01.1.  David Longworth (New York). The American Ladies & Gentlemens
Pocket Almanac and Belles Lettres Repository for 1802.
Five-sided
cardboard sheath, with label on sides. [Collection of G. T.
Tanselle, 2005.] 

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1803

 
† 03.1.  R. Baldwin (London). Edmond Hoyle, Hoyle's Games. Five-sided
cardboard sheath, printed on all sides. [Collection of John Porter;
cited and illustrated by McLean (1983), p. 19.] 

1810

     
† 10.1.  S. & J. Fuller (London). ["Dr. Walcot" (Amelia Troward?).] The
History and Adventures of Little Henry.
Printed cardboard sheath.
[Toronto Public Library (Osborne Collection); described by Judith
St. John (1958-75), p. 1052.] 
† 10.2.  S. & J. Fuller (London). ["Dr. Walcot" (Amelia Troward?).] The
History of Little Fanny.
Second Edition. Printed cardboard sheath.
[Toronto Public Library (Osborne Collection); described by Judith
St. John (1958-75), p. 1052.] 
† 10.3.  S. & J. Fuller (London). ["Dr. Walcot" (Amelia Troward?).] The
History of Little Fanny.
Fourth Edition. Printed cardboard sheath.
[Toronto Public Library (Osborne Collection); described by Judith
St. John (1958-75), p. 418]. 

1811

         
† 11.1.  S. & J. Fuller (London). Frank Feignwell's Attempts to Amuse His
Friends.
Printed cardboard sheath. [Toronto Public Library (Osborne
Collection); described by Judith St. John (1958-75), p. 418.] 
† 11.2.  S. & J. Fuller (London). ["Dr. Walcot" (Amelia Troward?).]
Phoebe, the Cottage Maid [1812 on title-page; 1811 on front cover
and sheath; back cover advertises a book to be published "early in
January 1812"]. Printed cardboard sheath. [Toronto Public Library
(Osborne Collection); described by Judith St. John (1958-75),
p. 1053.] 
† 11.3.  S. & J. Fuller (London). Young Albert, the Roscius. Printed cardboard
sheath. [Toronto Public Library (Osborne Collection); described
by Judith St. John (1958-75), p. 420, and by Brian Alderson
and Felix de Marez Oyens (2006), entry 211.] 
† 11.4.  S. & J. Fuller (London). Young Albert, the Roscius. Third Edition.
Printed cardboard sheath. [Collection of Brian Alderson, 2005.] 
† 11.5.  M. J. Godwin (London). Charles Lamb, Beauty and the Beast.
Printed brown cardboard sheath. [Houghton (Widener Collection).] 

1812

   
† 12.1.  S. & J. Fuller (London). ["Dr. Walcot" (Amelia Troward?).] Hubert,
the Cottage Youth.
Printed cardboard sheath. [Toronto Public
Library (Osborne Collection); described by Judith St. John (195875),
p. 1052.] 
† 12.2.  S. & J. Fuller (London). ["Dr. Walcot" (Amelia Troward?).] Lucinda,
the Orphan.
Printed cardboard sheath. [Toronto Public
Library (Osborne Collection); described by Judith St. John (195875),
p. 419.] 

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† 12.3.  I. & E. Wallis (London). St. Julien, the Emigrant. Printed cardboard
sheath. [Toronto Public Library (Osborne Collection); described
by Judith St. John (1958-75), p. 1053, and by Brian
Alderson and Felix de Marez Oyens (2006), entry 167.] 

1814

   
† 14.1.  S. & J. Fuller (London). ["Dr. Walcot" (Amelia Troward?).] Cinderella;
or, The Little Glass Slipper.
Printed cardboard sheath.
[Toronto Public Library (Osborne Collection); described by Judith
St. John (1958-75), p. 1051.] 
† 14.2.  John Harris (London). The Swan of Elegance: A New Game Designed
for the Instruction and Amusement of Youth.
Green
marbled paper-covered cardboard sheath, with engraved label.
[Morgan; described by Brian Alderson and Felix de Marez Oyens
(2006), entry 162.] 

1819[?]

 
¢ 19.1.  Richard Phillips (London; printed by William Lewis for Richard
Phillips, and sold by J. Souter and "all booksellers"). "David
Blair" [Richard Phillips], The Universal Preceptor. 10th ed., 1819.
Black limp roan jacket with black paper backing, stamped in blind
on front and back (a two-line border around the edges) and in gold
on spine (title). One's first thought about this jacket is that it was
made by an owner of the book, and it very well may have been. But
three pieces of evidence (furnished to me by Selwyn H. Goodacre,
the owner of the book in 1982) suggest at least the possibility that
the jacket was supplied by the author-publisher or by the bookseller
named in the imprint (or another bookseller) at the time of
original sale: (1) at the foot of the title-page, the price is stated as
"4s. 6d. bound"; (2) the front paste-down endpaper has an inscription
dated "October 13 1825"; (3) the binding has no lettering
whatever. Thus the binding dates from before 13 October 1825,
and in light of the title-page notation (indicating that copies were
sold bound) it may date from 1819; and perhaps the reason that the
binding has no lettering is that it was to be provided with a jacket
carrying a spine-title. This reasoning leads me to include the jacket
here with a question mark. [Collection of Selwyn H. Goodacre, 15
October 1982.] 

1822

 
† 22.1.  Ackermann (London). Forget Me Not . . . 1823. Four-sided(?) cardboard
sheath, repeating cover design. [Collection of Anne Renier;
cited by her (1964), p. 11. Cited by Jamieson (1973), p. 7.] 

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1823

 
† 23.1.  Lupton Relfe (London). Friendship's Offering . . . 1824. Five-sided
cardboard sheath, with printed label on front. [Pennsylvania State
University. State Library, Victoria; cited and illustrated by McMullin
(2000), pp. 260, 262 (noting that design on sheath is different
from that on binding). Cited by Jamieson (1973), p. 8 (noting that
design on sheath is the same as that on binding).] 

1824

     
† 24.1.  Ackermann (London). Forget Me Not . . . 1825. Four-sided cardboard
sheath, with green printed label on front and back. [Bodleian
(John Johnson Collection). Collection of Selwyn H. Goodacre,
1982.] 
† 24.2.  A. R. Poole (Philadelphia). Le souvenir, or Picturesque Pocket
Diary for 1825.
Cardboard sheath, with light green printed label on
front and back. [Collection of Philip Shelley, 1971.] 
† 24.3.  Lupton Relfe (London). Friendship's Offering . . . 1825. Five-sided
cardboard sheath, with printed label on front. [Massey College,
University of Toronto; cited and illustrated by McLean (1983), pp.
24-25.] 

1825

     
† 25.1.  Ackermann (London). Forget Me Not . . . 1826. Four-sided cardboard
sheath, with green printed label on front and back. [Bodleian
(John Johnson Collection).] 
† 25.2.  Marshall (London). The Pledge of Friendship . . . 1826. [Bodleian
(John Johnson Collection).] 
† 25.3.  A. R. Poole (Philadelphia). Le souvenir, or Picturesque Pocket
Diary for 1826.
(1) Cardboard sheath, with light green printed label
on sides. (2) Leather-covered sheath, with yellow printed label on
sides. [(1) Collection of Philip Shelley, 1971. Collection of Michael
Zinman, 1995. (2) Collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S.
Levin, 2005.] 

1826

 
† 26.1.  Ackermann (London). Forget Me Not . . . 1827. Four-sided cardboard
sheath, with green printed label on front and back. [Bodleian
(John Johnson Collection). Massey College, University of Toronto;
cited by McLean (1983), p. 25. Deval & Muir cat. 30 (1974),
item 313 (£6.50). Ken Leach cat. 86-5 (1986), item 55 ($85). Blackwell's
cat. B148 (2005), item 1 (£120). Collection of Ellen K. Morris
and Edward S. Levin, 2005.] 

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† 26.2.  Carey & Lea (Philadelphia). Atlantic Souvenir . . . 1827. Five-sided
cardboard sheath, with green printed label on front and
back. [Pennsylvania State University. Collection of Michael Zinman,
1995. Collection of Kevin Mac Donnell; illustrated by him
(2001), p. 30.] 
† 26.3.  Lupton Relfe (London). Friendship's Offering . . . 1827. Five-sided
cardboard sheath, with printed label on front. [Bodleian
(John Johnson Collection); cited by Jamieson (1973), pp. 7-8.] 

1827

         
† 27.1.  Ackermann (London). Forget Me Not . . . 1828. Four-sided(?) cardboard
sheath, repeating cover design. [Monash University; cited by
McMullin (2000), p. 258. Wilder cat. 61 (1993), p. 10 ($175).] 
† 27.2.  W. Baynes & Son, and Wightman & Cramp (London). The Amulet
. . . 1828.
Five-sided cardboard sheath, with printed purple labels on
all sides. [Massey College, University of Toronto; cited and illustrated
by McLean (1983), pp. 10, 24-25. In stock of Mac Donnell
Rare Books, prior to 2005.] 
† 27.3.  Carey, Lea & Carey (Philadelphia). Atlantic Souvenir . . . 1828.
Four-sided cardboard sheath, with green printed label on front and
back. [Library of Congress. Pennsylvania State University (3 copies).
Cited for both 1828 and 1829 by C. A. Wilson in Publishers' Weekly,
117 (15 February 1930), 894-895; and by Rosner (1954), p. xiv.
Mott cat. 199 (1978), item 135 ($150). Collection of Michael Zinman,
1995. Collection of Kevin Mac Donnell; illustrated by him
(2001), pp. 30, 46.] 
† 27.4.  N. S. Simpkins (Boston). The Moral and Religious Souvenir (1828).
Cardboard sheath, with green printed label on front and back.
[Collection of Michael Zinman, 1995.] 
† 27.5.  S. G. Goodrich (Boston). The Token . . . 1828. Five-sided cardboard
sheath, with green printed label on front and back. [Pennsylvania
State University (3 copies).] 

1828

   
† 28.1.  Ackermann (London). Forget Me Not . . . 1829. Four-sided cardboard
sheath, with green printed label on front and back. [Illustrated
by Renier (1964), facing p. 9. Collection of Philip Shelley,
1971. Collection of Michael Zinman, 1995. Collection of Kevin Mac
Donnell; illustrated by him (2001), p. 29. Collection of Ellen K.
Morris and Edward S. Levin, 2005. Collection of David L. Vander
Meulen, 2005.] 
† 28.2.  Carey, Lea & Carey (Philadelphia). Atlantic Souvenir . . . 1829.
Four-sided cardboard sheath, with green printed label on front and
back. (See 1827.) [Library of Congress. Pennsylvania State University.
Cited for both 1828 and 1829 by C. A. Wilson in Publishers'
Weekly, 117 (15 February 1930), 894-895; and by Rosner, p. xiv.
Hurley Books cat. 75 (1978), item 6 ($45), item 7 (five-sided, $75).
Leach cat. 94-1 (1994), item 12 ($500). Collection of Michael Zinman,
1995. Collection of Kevin Mac Donnell; illustrated by him
(2001), pp. 29, 30.] 

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† 28.3.  I. Poole (London). First Flowers, or Literary Bouquet . . . 1829.
Sheath with printed label. [In stock of Mac Donnell Rare Books,
2005.] 
† 28.4.  Westley & Davis (London). The Amulet . . . 1829. Five-sided
cardboard sheath, with printed label on front and back. [Bodleian
(John Johnson Collection). Collection of Ellen K. Morris and
Edward S. Levin, 2005.] 

1829

 
† 29.1.  Ackermann (London). Forget Me Not . . . 1830. Five-sided cardboard
sheath, with green printed label on front and back. [Georgetown
University. Massey College, University of Toronto; cited and
illustrated by McLean (1983), pp. 24-25. Collection of Philip
Shelley, 1971. Collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin,
2005; cited by them in The Art of Publishers' Bookbindings 18151915
(2000), entry 6 (p. 20).] 

1830

     
† 30.1.  Ackermann (London). Forget Me Not . . . 1831. Four-sided cardboard
sheath, with green printed label on front and back. [Bodleian
(John Johnson Collection). Collection of Ellen K. Morris and
Edward S. Levin, 2005.] 
† 30.2.  S. & J. Fuller (London). ["Dr. Walcot" (Amelia Troward?).] The
History of Little Fanny.
10th edition. Five-sided sheath, repeating
design of binding (wrappers). [Illustrated by Alan Powers in
Children's Book Covers: Great Book Jacket and Cover Design
(2003), p. 15. Collection of Brian Alderson, 2005 (whose copy
provides the evidence for the attribution to "Dr. Walcot" here and
in 10.1-3, 11.2, 12.1-2, and 14.1 above).] 
† 30.3.  [OMITTED]

1832

 
§ 32.1.  Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman (London). The
Keepsake . . . 1833.
Printed on front and back; designed to enclose
the book completely, like wrapping paper. [Collection of John
Carter, 1952; reported by him in Publishers' Weekly, 126 (22 September
1934), 1121, and in Bibliographical Notes & Queries, 1.2
(April 1935), 1. Cited and illustrated by Rosner (1954), p. vii; illustrated
by Kurt Weidemann in Book Jackets and Record Covers:
An International Survey
(1969), p. v, and by Tanselle (1971), plate
1. This covering was lost in 1952 on the way to the Bodleian, as
Carter reports in Books and Book-Collectors (1956), p. 182.] 

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1844

 
§ 44.1.  Fisher, Son & Co. (London). [Sarah Stickney Ellis], The Juvenile
Scrap-Book . . . 1845.
Printed on front; designed to enclose the book
completely, like wrapping paper. [UCLA; illustrated by Tanselle
(1971), plate 2.] 

1846

 
§ 46.1.  Fisher, Son & Co. (London). [Sarah Stickney Ellis], The Juvenile
Scrap-Book . . . 1847.
Printed on front (including price and revealing
author's name); designed to enclose the book completely, like
wrapping paper. [UCLA; illustrated by Tanselle (1971), plate 3.
Collection of B. S. Long, 1935; cited by I. A. Williams in Bibliographical
Notes & Queries,
1.2 (April 1935), 1-2. In stock of Beauchamp
Bookshop, 1952.] 

1847

 
§ 47.1.  Fisher, Son & Co. (London). [Sarah Stickney Ellis], The Juvenile
Scrap-Book . . . 1848.
Designed to enclose the book completely, like
wrapping paper. [Collection of B. S. Long, 1935; cited by I. A. Williams
in Bibliographical Notes & Queries, 1.2 (April 1935), 1-2. In
stock of Beauchamp Bookshop, 1952.] 

1848

   
§ 48.1.  American Art Union (New York). F. O. C. Darley, Six Illustrations
of Rip Van Winkle.
Envelope slip-case printed on front with design
and text different from book and stating "India Proof Copy"
in upper left corner. [Leach sale (1984), lot 1 ($600).] 
§ 48.2.  Peter Jackson. (London). [Sarah Stickney Ellis], The Juvenile
Scrap-Book . . . 1849.
Designed to enclose the book completely, like
wrapping paper. [Collection of B. S. Long, 1935; cited by I. A. Williams
in Bibliographical Notes & Queries, 1.2 (April 1935), 1-2.] 

1849

   
† 49.1.  G. E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode (London). The Book of Common
Prayer.
Maroon hinged box, with lettering on spine. [Collection of
Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin, 2005.] 
§ 49.2.  Peter Jackson (London). [Sarah Stickney Ellis], The Juvenile
Scrap-Book . . . 1850.
Designed to enclose the book completely.
[Collection of B. S. Long, 1935; cited by I. A. Williams in Bibliographical
Notes & Queries,
1.2 (April 1935), 1-2.] 

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1850

 
† 50.1.  Derby & Miller (Auburn, N.Y.). Jacob Abbott, "Cousin Lucy's
Stories," 6 vols. Box with label. [Collection of Michael Zinman,
1995.] 

1853

 
† 53.1.  American Sunday-School Union (Philadelphia). Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps, "Kitty Brown Series." 4 vols., 1851-53. Box, with colored
pictorial label. [Leach sale (1984), lot 2 ($110).] 

1857

   
57.1.  Blackie (London). Charles MacFarlane and Thomas Thomson,
The Comprehensive History of England. Printing includes price.
4 vols. [Reported to me by John Carter, 1968.] 
§ 57.2.  Whittaker (London). Richard S. Gedney, The Poetical Works,
ed. James Ogden. 2nd ed. Printed on front (with three imprints,
the first of which is Appleton, New York—but the sheets of the
book, and presumably the jacket, were printed in England; the
third imprint is Galt, Manchester); designed to enclose the book
completely, like wrapping paper. [Bodleian (John Johnson Collection).
Lilly. Southern Methodist University. Cited by David Magee
in Publishers' Weekly, 133 (15 January 1938), 245 (illustrated).
Charles Yale cat. 13 (October 1941), item 176 (labeled "The First
American Dust-Jacket"). Cited by L. D. Feldman in Publishers'
Weekly,
152 (6 September 1947), B154; by Rosner, p. xiv (illustrated);
and in Report of the Rare Book Librarian, The Lilly Library,
Indiana University, July 1, 1963-June 30, 1965,
p. 23. Illustrated
by John T. Winterich and David A. Randall in A Primer of
Book Collecting
(3rd rev. ed., 1966), p. 119; and by Tanselle (1971),
plate 4.] 

1859

   
† 59.1.  Brown, Taggard & Chase (Boston). George Coolidge, The Baby
Dear.
"My Own Little Library" (No. 1). Blue box, printed in gold.
[Collection of Michael Zinman, 1995.] 
† 59.2.  Brown, Taggard & Chase (Boston). George Coolidge, "My Own
Little Library." 6 vols. Box, printed in gold. [Leach sale (1984),
lot 3 ($40; lacks one booklet).] 

1860

 
60.1.  Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts (London). John Bunyan,
Pilgrim's Progress, ill. Charles Bennett. Printed in red on front
(including illustration from the book, price, and date) and spine.
[Collection of Thomas Balston, 1931; cited by John Carter in Publishers'
Weekly,
120 (15 August 1931), 617, and in Publisher & Bookseller,
19 August 1932, pp. 293-294, and by Rosner (1954), p. vii.
Scribner Book Store cat. 110 (1936), item 17 ("An amazing copy,"
the jacket being "one of the earliest recorded"; $35).] 

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§ 60.2.  Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts (London). Edward Falkener,
Daedalus. Designed to enclose the book completely, like
wrapping paper. [Cited by McMullin (2000), p. 264 (quoting Peter
Baring's 1999 description of an auction of "about 8" copies in
wrapping).] 
§ 60.3.  Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts (London). Edward Falkener
(ed.), The Museum of Classical Antiquities. Printed on front;
designed to enclose the book completely, like wrapping paper.
[Monash University; discussed and illustrated by McMullin
(2000), pp. 263-265 (mentioning another copy in Melbourne and
quoting Peter Baring's 1999 description of an auction of "about
20" such copies).] 

1861

 
61.1.  Blackwood (Edinburgh). [Noel Paton], Poems by a Painter. Printed
on front and spine. [Houghton; illustrated by Tanselle (1971),
plate 5.] 

1862

   
62.1.  Blackie (London). Henry Beveridge, A Comprehensive History of
India.
3 vols. (comprising nine parts, 1858-62). Printing includes
price. [Reported to me by John Carter, 1968.] 
62.2.  Groombridge & Sons (London). Jonathan Couch, The History of
the Fishes of the British Islands.
4 vols. 1862-65. Green, printed on
sides (design of cover) and spine (title, author, decoration). [Yale
Center for British Art (lacking jacket for vol. 2 [1863]); displayed in
exhibition "Gold on Cloth," October 1992.] 

1864

 
64.1.  Groombridge & Sons (London). Jonathan Couch, The History of
the Fishes of the British Islands.
4 vols., 1862-65. Green, printed on
sides (design of cover) and spine (title, author, decoration). [Yale
Center for British Art (lacking jacket for vol. 2 [1863]); displayed
in exhibition "Gold on Cloth," October 1992.] 

1865

   
65.1.  Appleton (New York). The Bryant Festival at "The Century."
Printed on front and back with binding design. [Cited by John S.
Van E. Kohn in Publishers' Weekly, 132 (30 October 1937), 173235;
and by Rosner, p. xv (illustrated).] 
65.2.  Groombridge & Sons (London). Jonathan Couch, The History of
the Fishes of the British Islands.
4 vols., 1862-65. Green, printed on
sides (design of cover) and spine (title, author, decoration). [Yale
Center for British Art (lacking jacket for vol. 2 [1863]); displayed
in exhibition "Gold on Cloth," October 1992.] 

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1867

     
† 67.1.  Bradbury, Evans & Co. (London). The Handy-Volume Shakespeare.
13 vols. Green hinged box with lettering on top and label
inside lid. [Colleciton of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin,
2005.] 
67.2.  Edward Moxon (London). Alfred Tennyson, Guinevere, ill. Gustave
Doré. [Cited by Eric Quayle in "The Evolution of Trade
Bindings, Part 2," Antiquarian Book Monthly Review, 4 (September
1977), 358-364 (see p. 361). Quayle says that "All of Edward
Moxon's series of folio reprints of the poets" were published in
jackets, and he mentions Tennyson's Idylls of the King (1868) and
Enid (1868), Thomas Hood's Poems (1870), and Keats's Endymion
(1873); but it is not clear whether he has seen surviving examples
of all of them, and entries for them are not included here.] 
† 67.3.  Henry M. Wynkoop (New York). The Handy-Volume Shakespeare.
13 vols. Box with label on lid. [Collection of Michael Zinman,
1995.] 

1868

   
68.1.  George A. Leavitt (New York). The Magnolia . . . 1869. Yellow,
printed on front, spine, and back (ad for "Choice and Elegant Gift
Books"). [Chapin.] 
† 68.2.  Sheldon & Co. (New York). Mrs. Sanborn Tenney, "Pictures and
Stories of Animals for the Little Ones at Home." 6 vols. Box with
orange pictorial label. [Leach sale (1984), lot 5 ($110).] 

1869

       
§ 69.1.  Catholic Publication Society (New York). Aubrey De Vere, Irish
Odes and Other Poems.
Printed on spine; designed to enclose the
book completely. [Cited by M. J. Macmanus in Bibliographical
Notes & Queries,
1.2 (April 1935), 2.] 
69.2.  Sampson Low (London and New York). Robert Buchanan, Ballad
Stories of the Affections, from the Scandinavian.
[Cited by Goodspeed's
Book Shop in Publishers' Weekly, 119 (16 May 1931), 2443;
and by Rosner (1954), p. xv.] 
69.3.  Macmillan (London). Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days.
Illustrated ed. Printed on front and spine. [Princeton (Robert H.
Taylor Collection).] 
69.4.  Putnam (New York). William Dean Howells, No Love Lost: A
Romance of Travel.
Printed on front (including price and subtitle
"A Story of Venice"). [Doheny sale (1988), lot 1405 (illustrated on
p. 227), sold to Robert Rulon-Miller for $1870; Rulon-Miller cat.
88 (1988), item 151 ($3500), labeled "Third Earliest American
Dust-Jacket Extant," and cat. 92 (1990), item 108 ($3500), labeled
"The earliest obtainable American dust-jacket." Parkhurst cat. 1
(1996), item 69 ($8500), labeled "Earliest dust jacket known in a
private collection." In stock of Mac Donnell Rare Books, prior to
2005.] 

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1870

     
70.1.  Blackie (London). F.-A. Pouchet, The Universe. Printed in red
and brown (including price). [Reported to me by John Carter,
1968.] 
70.2.  Chapman & Hall (London). Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin
Drood.
Printed on front and spine. [Collection of A. Edward
Newton (d. 1940). Cited by Raphael King in Publishers' Weekly,
117 (19 April 1930), 2148; by John Carter in Publisher & Bookseller,
19 August 1932, pp. 293-294; by Edgar H. Wells in Publishers'
Weekly,
117 (21 June 1930), 3040; by John C. Eckel in The First
Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens
(2nd ed., 1932), p. 98
("the earliest known dust-wrapper") and reproduced as the frontispiece;
by A. Edward Newton in Bibliographical Notes & Queries,
1.2 (April 1935), 2; in Publishers' Weekly, 159 (10 February 1951),
899; by Rosner (1954), p. vii; and by Walter E. Smith, Charles
Dickens in the Original Cloth
(1982), p. 116, n. 1.] 
† 70.3.  Lee & Shepard (Boston). Sophie May, "Dotty Dimple Series." 6
vols. Box with colored pictorial label. [Leach sale (1984), lot 6
($100)*.] 

1871

 
† 71.1.  James R. Osgood (Boston). Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Works. 10 vols.
Dark green pebble-grained cloth box with hinged top, lettered on
top "TENNYSON'S WORKS." [Collection of Penelope C. and George M.
Barringer, 1980.] 

1872

 
72.1.  Longmans, Green (London). Andrew Lang, Ballads and Lyrics of
Old France.
[Houghton; cited in The Houghton Library, Reports
XXX-XXXIV: Acquisitions 1970-1975
(1979), p. 214.] 

1873

 
73.1.  Reeves & Turner (London). The Old Book Collector's Miscellany;
or, A Collection of Readable Reprints of Literary Rarities.
Vol. 3.
Printed on front (including date), spine, and back (front and back
contain a listing of the contents); printed on the reverse of the 1878
Reeves & Turner jacket listed below. [Collection of Peter C. G.
Isaac, 1975; discussed by him (1975), pp. 51-52 (illustrated).] 

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1874

   
74.1.  Charles Griffin & Co. (London). Edgar Allan Poe, The Poetical
Works,
ed. James Hannay. "The Emerald Series of Poets," Printed
on front (including "Fourteenth Thousand"), spine, and back (ad
for series). [Collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin,
2005.] 
74.2.  Macmillan (London). Christina Rossetti, Speaking Likenesses.
Printed on front and spine. [Kent State; cited by Keller (1971), p.
33. Deighton, Bell cat. 130 (ca. 1972), item 569 (£38). In stock of
James Cummins, 1980s(?) ($5000).] 

1875

         
75.1.  Houghton Mifflin (Boston). Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The
Hanging of the Crane.
Printed on front. [Cited by C. A. Wilson in
Publishers' Weekly, 117 (18 January and 15 February 1930), 351352,
894-895; and by Rosner (1954), p. xv.] 
† 75.2.  Hurd & Houghton (New York). Dr. William Smith's Dictionary
of the Bible,
ed. H. B. Hackett and Ezra Abbot. 4 vols. Box with
printed label. [Collection of Michael Zinman, 1995.] 
75.3.  Scribner, Armstrong (New York). Charles Greville, The Greville
Memoirs.
"Bric-a-Brac Series." Printed in red on front (including
date) and back (ad for the series). [Leach sale (1984), lot 7 ($30 for
three vols. of series).] 
75.4.  Scribner, Armstrong (New York). Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt,
et al., Personal Recollections. "Bric-a-Brac Series." Printed in red
on front (including date) and back (ad for the series). [Leach sale
(1984), lot 7 ($30 for three vols. of series).] 
75.5.  Scribner, Armstrong (New York). John O'Keeffe, Michael Kelly,
John Taylor, and Richard Henry Stoddard, Personal Reminiscences.
"Bric-a-Brac Series." Printed in red on front (including
date) and back (ad for the series). [Leach sale (1984), lot 7 ($30 for
three vols. of series).] 

1876

   
76.1.  Edward Bosqui (San Francisco). Charles B. Turrill, California
Notes: First Volume.
Printed on front. [Leach sale (1984), lot 8
($110).] 
76.2.  Lee & Shepard (Boston). Sarah Flower Adams, "Nearer, My God,
to Thee.
" Printed in red on front (repeating title page, including
date). [American Antiquarian Society. Collection of Jacob Blanck,
1970. In stock of The Bookmark, August 1993 ($350). Reported to
me by Kevin Mac Donnell, 2005.] 

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76.3.  Macmillan (London). Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark.
Printed on front, spine, and back. [Cited by Raphael King in Publishers'
Weekly,
117 (19 April 1930), 2148; by John Carter in Publishers'
Weekly,
117 (19 April 1930), 2148, and in Publisher &
Bookseller,
19 August 1932, pp. 293-294; and by F. B. A. [Frederick
B. Adams] in Bibliographical Notes & Queries, 1.2 (April 1935), 2;
in Publishers' Weekly, 159 (10 February 1951), 899; and by Rosner
(1954), p. vii (illustrated). Collection of Douglas C. Ewing, 1968;
illustrated by Tanselle (1971), plate 6. Swann auction cat. 992 (5
June 1975), lot 64. In stock of Bertram Rota, 6 June 1975. Cited by
Selwyn H. Goodacre in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark,
ed. Martin Gardner (1982).] 

1877

               
77.1.  Appleton (New York). Philadelphia International Exhibition of
1876, Gems of the Centennial Exhibition. Printed on front and
spine. [Leach sale (1984), lot 12 ($45).] 
77.2.  Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger (Philadelphia). A. J. Pleasonton,
The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight. Printed on
front. [Collection of Michael Zinman, 1995.] 
77.3.  William F. Gill (Boston). Poems of the "Old South." Printed on
front. [Collection of G. T. Tanselle, 2005.] 
† 77.4.  Harper (New York). Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner,
ill. Gustave Doré. Box, with printing on top.
[Leach sale (1984), lot 9 ($400).] 
77.5.  Lee & Shepard (Boston). William Knox, Oh, Why Should the Spirit
of Mortal Be Proud?
(1) Printed on front (repeating title-page, including
date). (2) Printed on front and back (ad; later printing?).
[ (1) Collection of Jacob Blanck, 1970. Leach sale (1984), lot 10 (not
sold). (2) Leach sale (1984), lot 11 ($20). In stock of Mac Donnell
Rare Books, 2005.] 
77.6.  Lee & Shepard (Boston) and Charles T. Dillingham (New York).
Henry Francis Lyte, Abide with Me. Printed on front and back
(ad). [Collection of G. T. Tanselle, 2005. In stock of Mac Donnell
Rare Books, 2005.] 
77.7.  Lothrop (Boston). Elizabeth C. Clephane, The Ninety and Nine.
Printed on front. [Collection of G. T. Tanselle, 2005.] 
77.8.  Frederick Warne (London). Walter Crane, The Baby's Opera.
[Heritage Book Shop cat. 141 (1981), item 17 ($100).] 

1878

 
78.1.  Bell (London). Benjamin Maund, The Botanic Garden, ed. James
C. Niven. 6 vols. Light blue, with elaborate decoration (volume
numbers on spines added with hand-stamp). [Reported to me by
John Carter, 1968.] 

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78.2.  Bradbury, Agnew (London). Kate Field (ed.), New York Bell's
Telephone.
[Illustrated by Eric Quayle in "The Art in Binding,"
Wilson Library Bulletin, 51 (1977), 408-418 (see p. 416).] 
¢ 78.3.  David Douglas (Edinburgh). William Stirling-Maxwell, Antwerp
Delivered in MDLXXVII.
Cloth, with three flaps at front and back;
printed on front, spine, and back. [Bodleian (John Carter Collection).]  
† 78.4.  Harper (New York). John Townsend Trowbridge, The Book of
Gold and Other Poems.
Box with label on front. [Leach sale (1984),
lot 17 ($25).] 
78.5.  Lee & Shepard (Boston) and Charles T. Dillingham (New York).
Henry Francis Lyte, Abide with Me. Printed on front (repeating
title-page). [Leach sale (1984), lot 16 (not sold).] 
78.6.  Macmillan (London). Henry James, French Poets and Novelists.
Printed on front and spine. [Gilvarry sale (1986), lot 90 (illustrated
$3800). Seen at Gekoski booth, New York Antiquarian Book Fair,
16 April 1998 ($15,000).] 
78.7.  Porter & Coates (Philadelphia). "Harry Castelmon" [Charles
Austin Fosdick], The Boy Trapper. Ad on back for "Best Editions
of Popular 12mos." [Leach sale (1984), lot 15 ($55).] 
78.8.  Putnam (New York). William Cullen Bryant, The Flood of Years,
ill. W. J. Linton. Printed in red on front and back (list of "Holiday
Publications 1877-1878"). [Goodspeed cat. 580, item 10 ($100).
Leach sale (1984), lot 14 ($30).] 
78.9.  Reeves & Turner (London). Charles Hindley, The Life and Times
of James Catnach (Late of Seven Dials), Ballad Monger.
Printed on
front (advertisement for the book, dated), spine (same as label on
book spine), and back (reproducing part of one of Catnach's broadsides);
printed on the reverse of the 1873 Reeves & Turner jacket
listed above. [Collection of Peter C. G. Isaac, 1975; discussed by
him (1975), pp. 51-52 (with illustration, and pointing out that the
"bibliographical information on the jacket is consistent neither
with itself nor with that given on the copy" of the book).] 
78.10.  Virtue (London). Anthony Trollope, How the "Mastiffs" Went to
Iceland.
Light blue, printed on front (repeating title-page). [Burmester
cat. 40 (1999), item 113 (£2500); cited by McMullin (2000),
p. 266.] 

1879

 
79.1.  J. Fairbanks (Chicago). Loomis T. Palmer, General U. S. Grant's
Tour around the World.
Printed on front (three engravings) and
back (advertisement for works by T. DeWitt Talmadge). [Kane
auction cat. 55 (6 April 1997), lot 206.] 

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¢ 79.2.  Houghton, Osgood (Boston). Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Story of
a Cat.
Red cloth, printed in gold on spine. [Leach sale (1984), lot
18 ($30).] 
79.3.  Houghton, Osgood (Boston). Mother Goose's Melodies, ill. Alfred
Kappes. Pictorial jacket printed in brown. [Leach sale (1984), lot
19 ($160).] 
79.4.  Lee & Shepard (Boston) and Charles T. Dillingham (New York).
Augustus Montagu Toplady, Rock of Ages. (1) Printed on front.
(2) Printed on front and back (ad for "Illustrated Hymns and
Poems"; later printing?). [(1) Leach sale (1984), lot 20 ($5). (2) In
stock of Mac Donnell Rare Books, 2005.] 
79.5.  Old South Fair Committee (Boston). Poems of the "Old South."
Limited, signed issue. [In stock of Mac Donnell Rare Books, prior
to 2005.] 
79.6.  Routledge (London). Kate Greenaway, Under the Window.
Printed on front (with illustration from p. 57), spine, and back
(with advertisement for holiday books for 1879-80). [Collection of
P. H. Muir, 1971; Muir, in a review in the Book Collector, 27
(1978), 126, uses the jacket advertisement to date the book.] 
‡ 79.7.  Trübner (London). P. F. Krell et al., The Classics of Painting.
Drop-front box, with design and lettering on front; jacket has
same design on front. [Collection of P. H. Muir, 1971.] 

1880

         
80.1.  Belford, Clarke (Toronto [and Chicago]). Mary Russell Mitford,
Our Village. Printed on front (including blurbs, ads, and the Chicago
and Toronto imprint). [Leach sale (1984), lot 26 ($35).] 
80.2.  Dodd, Mead (New York). Rosina Emmet, The Pretty-Peggy Painting
Book.
Printed on front. [Leach cat. 71-2 (1971), item 112 ($35);
Leach sale (1984), lot 24 ($55).] 
† 80.3.  Harper (New York). Jacob Abbott, Franconia Stories. Box with
label on front. [Leach sale (1984), lot 21 ($10)*.] 
80.4.  Lee & Shepard (Boston). Sarah Flower Adams, "Nearer, My God,
to Thee.
" Printed in red on front (repeating title page, except that
it retains the original date, 1876, and is thus the same jacket as that
listed above under 1876). [Leach sale (1984), lot 22 (not sold).] 
80.5.  Whittet & Shepperson (Richmond). George D. Fisher, History and
Reminiscence of the Monumental Church, Richmond, Virginia.

Printed on spine [Leach sale (1984), lot 25 (with three copies of the
jacket; $25).] 

1881

 
81.1.  Appleton (New York). Arabella B. Buckley, The Fairy-Land of
Science.
Printed on front and spine (repeating cover). [Leach sale
(1984), lot 27 ($12.50).] 

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81.2.  Appleton (New York). Arabella B. Buckley, Life and Her Children.
Printed on front and spine (repeating cover). [Leach sale (1984), lot
28 (not sold).] 
81.3.  Appleton (New York). Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus. Printed
on front and back, with F. S. Church illustration from p. 90 and
excerpt from review. [Cited by Dauber & Pine in Publishers' Weekly,
117 (15 February 1930), 894-895; and by Rosner (1954), p. xv.] 
81.4.  Belford, Clarke (Chicago). Benjamin Disraeli, Endymion. Printed
on front (including date and "Key to the Characters in Endymion"),
spine, and back (ad with six-paragraph comment on J. W. Gally's
Sand and Big Jack Small). [Leach sale (1984), lot 30 ($25). Wilder
cat. 15 (1985), item H ($450); list 87-A (1987), item 17 ($275).] 
81.5.  Belford, Clarke (Chicago). G. J. Holyoake, Among the Americans
and A Stranger in America.
[Palinurus cat. 7 (1980), item 209
($250).] 
81.6.  Estes & Lauriat (Boston). Charles Carleton Coffin, The Boys of '61.
Printed on spine. [Leach sale (1984), lot 29 ($10)*.] 
81.7.  Estes & Lauriat (Boston). Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Song of the
Brook,
ill. A. F. Bellows et al. Front repeats title-page. [Leach sale
(1984), lot 39 ($5).] 
81.8.  Fergus Printing Co. (Chicago). Henry Hurlbut, Chicago Antiquities.
Printed on spine. [Seen in Titcomb's Book Shop booth at
Washington Book Fair, 8 March 1979 ($75). Wilder cat. 15 (1985),
item T ($235).] 
81.9.  Fergus Printing Co. (Chicago). Henry Tanner, The Martyrdom of
Lovejoy.
Printed on spine. [Reported to me by Terence Tanner,
18 October 1972.] 
81.10.  Houghton Mifflin (Boston). Charlotte Fiske Bates (ed.), The
Longfellow Birthday-Book.
"Birthday Books." Printed in dark blue
on front and spine (repeating cover) and back (ad for series). [Collection
of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin, 2005.] 
81.11.  Houghton Mifflin (Boston). Almira L. Hayward (ed.), The Illustrated
Birthday Book of American Authors.
"Birthday Books." 2nd
ed. Printed on front and spine (repeating cover, including designer's
monogram "FP") and back (ad for series). [Reported to me by
Edward S. Levin, 2005.] 
81.12.  Houghton Mifflin (Boston). [Horace E. Scudder], Mr. Bodley
Abroad.
Pictorial, with ad on back. [Leach sale (1984), lot 36 ($35.)] 
81.13.  Lee & Shepard (Boston). John Howard Payne, Home Sweet Home.
Printed on front (repeating title-page). [Collection of Herbert
Kleist, 1970. Leach sale (1984), lot 33 (not sold). Reported to me
by Kevin Mac Donnell, 2005.] 
81.14.  Lippincott (Philadelphia). Thomas Buchanan Read, Brushwood.
Printed on front and spine. [Leach sale (1984), lot 34 ($5)*.] 
81.15.  Lippincott (Philadelphia). Thomas Buchanan Read, Drifting.
Printed in red and black on front and spine (repeating cover) and
back (ad). [Leach sale (1984), lot 35 ($35).] 

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81.16.  Lothrop (Boston). Martha Perry Lowe, The Story of Chief Joseph.
Printed on front (repeating title-page). [Leach sale (1984), lot 32
($25).] 
81.17.  Lothrop (Boston). Samuel Woodworth, The Old Oaken Bucket.
(1) Printed on front (repeating cover). (2) Orange, printed on front
(repeating title-page). [(1) In stock of Serendipity Books, November
1977. Collection of G. T. Tanselle, 2005. (2) Leach sale (1984), lot
40 ($5)*.] 
81.18.  Kegan Paul, Trench (London). Edgar Allan Poe, Poems, introd.
Andrew Lang. "Parchment Library." Printed on front, spine, and
back (including quotation from reviews of the series). [Lilly.] 
81.19.  Routledge (London). Kate Greenaway, A Day in a Child's Life.
Pictorial. [Wilder cat. 9 (1984), item 52 ($850).] 
81.20.  Routledge (London). Kate Greenaway, Mother Goose. [Pirages cat.
10 (1986), item 288 ($300); cat. 15 (1985), item P ($375).] 
† 81.21.  Thorndike (Detroit). The Handy-Volume Shakespeare. 13 vols.
Green box, with printed label inside lid. [Leach sale (1984), lot 38
(one vol. lacking; $5).] 

1882

               
82.1.  Appleton (New York). Alfred Ayres, The Verbalist. Includes ad on
back. [Wilder cat. 72 (1995), item 6 ($295).] 
† 82.2.  Harper (New York). Samuel Adams Drake, The Heart of the White
Mountains.
Box with label. [Leach sale (1984), lot 42 ($50).] 
† 82.3.  Harper (New York). Robert Herrick, Selections from the Poetry, ill.
Edwin A. Abbey, ed. Alfred Pollard. Decorated box with lettering.
[Leach sale (1984), lot 43 ($45). Collection of Ellen K. Morris and
Edward S. Levin, 2005.] 
82.4  Houghton Mifflin (Boston). The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
Pictorial jacket. [In stock of The Scholar Gypsy Ltd., March
1977 ($45).] 
82.5.  Moses King (Cambridge, Mass.). B. P. Shillaber, Wide-Swath Embracing
Lines in Pleasant Places.
Printed on front and spine (repeating
cover). [Leach sale (1984), lot 47 ($10).] 
82.6.  Lee & Shepard (Boston) and Charles T. Dillingham (New York).
John Howard Payne, Home Sweet Home. Printed on front (repeating
title-page). [Leach sale (1984), lot 44 ($5).] 
‡ 82.7.  Lee & Shepard (Boston). Rosa H. Thorpe, The Curfew Must Not
Ring Tonight.
Box with printed label; jacket. [Collection of Jacob
Blanck, 1970 (without jacket). Reported to me by Kevin Mac Donnell,
2005 (jacket).] 
82.8.  Lee & Shepard (Boston). J. T. Trowbridge, The Vagabonds. Printed
on front (including illustration from title-page). [Collection of G.
T. Tanselle, 2005; illustrated by him (1971), plate 7.] 

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† 82.9.  Lippincott (Philadelphia). Thomas Buchanan Read, Christine.
Box with printed label. [Leach sale (1984), lot 45 (not sold)*.] 
82.10.  Macmillan (London). Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Household
Stories,
trans. Lucy Crane, ill. Walter Crane. Printed in red on front
(repeating title-page), spine (including illustrations), and back
(ad). [Toronto Public Library (Osborne Collection).] 
† 82.11.  Anson D. F. Randolph (New York). S. Alice Bray, The Baby's
Journal.
Box. [Morrill cat. 219 (1976), item 293 ($12.50).] 
82.12.  Smith, Elder (London). John Addington Symonds, Animi Figura.
Printed in brown on front (repeating cover), spine(?), and back.
[Collection of Timothy d'Arch Smith, 1970 (spine missing); cited
by him in "Babington's Bibliography of John Addington Symonds:
Some Additions and Corrections," The Courier (Syracuse University
Library), 36 (Fall 1970), 22-27 (see p. 23).] 
82.13.  A. Williams (Boston). Tributes to Longfellow and Emerson by the
Massachusetts Historical Society.
[Cited by C. A. Wilson in Publishers'
Weekly,
117 (15 February 1930), 894-895; and by Rosner
(1954), p. xv.] 
† 82.14.  R. Worthingt à n (New York). Handy Illustrated Shakespeare. 8
vols. Green box with hinged lid. [Leach sale (1984), lot 46 ($10).] 

1883

               
83.1.  Belford, Clarke (Chicago). George W. Peck, The Grocery Man
and Peck's Bad Boy.
[Houghton.] 
83.2.  Cupples, Upham (Boston). "Owen Innsly" [Lucy White Jennison],
Love Poems and Sonnets. 3rd ed. Printed in red on front; flaps (ca.
⅞″) at top and bottom as well as sides (and thus perhaps originally
a sealed wrapping?). [Collection of Herbert Kleist, 1977.] 
83.3.  Dodd, Mead (New York). Oliver Wendell Holmes, Grandmother's
Story of Bunker Hill Battle.
[In stock of Mac Donnell Rare Books,
2005.] 
83.4.  Ellis (Boston). Francis Power Cobb, Religious Duty. Printed on
spine. [Leach sale (1984), lot 49 ($45).] 
83.5.  Estes & Lauriat (Boston). Elizabeth Akers Allen, Rock Me to Sleep,
Mother.
Printed on front. [Collection of G. T. Tanselle, 2005.] 
83.6.  Estes & Lauriat (Boston). Hezekiah Butterworth, Zigzag Journeys
in Europe.
Printed on front (including blurbs), spine(?), and back
(ad for The Boys of '61). [Leach sale (1984), lot 48 ($20).] 
† 83.7.  Estes & Lauriat (Boston). Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard.
Box with printed label (book has unprinted jacket).
[Leach sale (1984), lot 51 (not sold)*.] 
83.8.  Estes & Lauriat (Boston). Friedrich Schiller, Song of the Bell. Light
green, printed on front in dark green. [Leach sale (1984), lot 52 ($5).] 

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83.9.  George C. Hitt (Indianapolis). James Whitcomb Riley, "The Old
Swimmin' Hole" and 'Leven More Poems.
Brown, printed in red
(over wrappers). [Lemperley sale (1940), lot 817. Described by Anthony
J. and Dorothy R. Russo in A Bibliography of James Whitcomb
Riley
(1944), p. 3. Arthur Swann sale (1960), lot 359 ("slightly
chipped"). Black Sun Books cat. 49 (1978), item 67 ($950); cat. 70
(1986), item 142 ($550). Martin sale (1990), lot 2236 ($330; the
Swann copy, now "in fragments"). Reese cat. 153 (1996), item 557
($1000).] 
83.10.  Kohler Publishing Co. (Philadelphia). Biblische Geschichten.
Printed in brown on spine. [Collection of Ellen K. Morris and
Edward S. Levin, 2005.] 
83.11.  Lee & Shepard (Boston) and Charles T. Dillingham (New York).
Caroline C. Leighton, Life at Puget Sound. Printed on front and
spine with binding design. [Juvelis cat. 97-3) (1997), item 229
($250).] 
83.12.  Lee & Shepard (Boston) and Charles T. Dillingham (New York).
Augustus Montagu Toplady, Rock of Ages. Printed on front.
[Leach sale (1984), lot 54 (not sold).] 
83.13.  Lothrop (Boston). Mary E. Wilkins [Freeman], Decorative Plaques.
[Virginia (Barrett Collection).] 
83.14.  Charles Mann (New York). Laura M. Colvin, Belles and Beaux,
with Other Poems.
Printed on front and spine (repeating cover).
[Leach sale (1984), lot 50 ($5).] 
83.15.  Novello (London). Theo Marzials (ed.), Pan-Pipes: A Book of Old
Songs,
ill. Walter Crane. 2nd ed. Jacket includes illustration by
Crane. [Wilder cat. 34 (1989), item 62 ($350).] 
83.16.  James R. Osgood (Boston). Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dr. Grimshawe's
Secret.
Printed on front and spine. [Virginia (Barrett Collection).] 
83.17.  Kegan Paul, Trench (London). George Saintsbury (ed.), French
Lyrics.
"Parchment Library." Light blue, printed on front, spine,
and back (list of titles in "Parchment Library"). [Collection of
G. T. Tanselle, 2005.] 
83.18.  Putnam (New York). Proceedings at the Dinner Given by the Medical
Profession of the City of New York, April 12, 1883, to Oliver
Wendell Holmes.
[Cited by C. A. Wilson in Publishers' Weekly,
117 (15 February 1930), 894-895; and by Rosner (1954), p. xv.] 
83.19.  Revell (Chicago). Hannah Whitall Smith, The Christian's Secret
of a Happy Life.
Printed on front (including "Thirty-Fifth Thousand")
and back (ads). [Leach sale (1984), lot 53 ($55).] 
† 83.20.  White, Stokes & Allen (New York). Susie B. Skelding, Songs of
Flowers.
Box with printed label. [Collection of Jacob Blanck, 1970.] 

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1884

               
84.1.  Appleton (New York). William Cullen Bryant, Poetical Works
(1884 printing?). Printed on front (repeating cover), spine, and back
(ad, including Parke Godwin's 1883 biography of Bryant and his
1884 edition of Bryant's Prose Writings). [Juvelis cat. 96-1 (1996),
item 155 ($150).] 
84.2.  Belford, Clarke (Chicago). Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tales,
trans. Mrs. H. B. Paull. Printed on front and spine (repeating cover)
and back (ads). [Leach sale (1984), lot 55 ($40).] 
† 84.3.  J. W. Bouton (New York). Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey
through France and Italy.
Decorated folding cloth box. [Leach sale
(1984), lot 63 ($35).] 
84.4.  Clarendon Press (Oxford). James A. H. Murray (ed.), A New English
Dictionary on Historical Principles.
Jackets on original fascicles,
1884-1915, printed on front (repeating cover and title page, except
for border and imprint), spine (vertical: title, device, date, letters
covered), and back (advertisements, except the first one, which has
a blank back). (Fascicles were published both in quarterly "Sections"
[of 64, 128, or 192 pages] and, at irregular intervals, in
"Parts" that normally combined Sections into 320-page units;
therefore the number of fascicles in a complete set varies according
to the relative number of Sections and Parts it contains.) [Lilly
(50 fascicles in jackets through 1915); cited in Lilly Library Publication
No. 19, Printing and the Mind of Man (1973), item 340.
Collection of Sandy Malcolm, 2005 (75 fascicles in jackets through
1915). Collection of David Yerkes, 2005 (68 fascicles in jackets
through 1915).] 
84.5.  Donnelley, Loyd (Chicago). William H. Thomes, The Gold Hunter's
Adventures; or, Life in Australia.
Printed on front, spine, and
back (illustration from book). [Collection of G. T. Tanselle, 2005.] 
84.6.  Fergus Printing Co. (Chicago). Ninian Edwards, The Edwards
Papers,
ed. E. B. Washburne. Chicago Historical Society Collections,
vol. 3. Printed on front and spine. [Wilder cat. 72 (1995), item 28
($175). Collection of G. T. Tanselle, 2005.] 
84.7.  Fergus Printing Co. (Chicago). Harvey Reid, Biographical Sketch
of Enoch Long, an Illinois Pioneer.
Chicago Historical Society Collections,
vol. 2. Printed on front and spine. [Leach sale (1984), lot 60
($20). Wilder cat. 15 (1985), item BI ($235); list 87-A (1987), item 42
($180). Collection of G. T. Tanselle, 2005.] 
† 84.8.  Harper (New York). Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven, ill. Gustave
Doré. Blue box, printed in red on front. [Collection of Harrison
Hayford, 1970s. Leach cat. 81-4 (1981), item 202 ($250). Leach sale
(1984), lot 59 ($260). Collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S.
Levin, 2005.] 

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‡ 84.9.  Houghton Mifflin (Boston). The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, ill.
Elihu Vedder. Box and jacket. [Phillips Hill Books cat. 13 (1999),
item 26 ($950).] 
84.10.  Lee & Shepard (Boston) and Charles T. Dillingham (New York).
T. Nelson Dale, The Outskirts of Physical Science. Printed on spine.
[Leach sale (1984), lot 56 ($5).] 
‡ 84.11.  Lee & Shepard (Boston). Ray Palmer, "My Faith Looks up to Thee."
(1) Box with printed label (book is in wrappers). (2) Jacket printed
on front, including date (book is in cloth). [(1) Leach sale (1984), lot
58 ($5). (2) Collection of G. T. Tanselle, 2005. Reported to me by
Kevin Mac Donnell, 2005.] 
84.12.  Lippincott (Philadelphia). J. T. Rothrock, Vacation Cruising in
Chesapeake and Delaware Bays.
Printed on front (repeating cover),
spine(?), and back (ad). [Leach sale (1984), lot 61 ($40). Finer cat.
19 (1985), item 323 ($125).] 
84.13.  Little, Brown (Boston). "Medicus" [Daniel Denison Slade],
Twelve Days in the Saddle. Pink, printed on front. [Leach sale
(1984), lot 62 ($45).] 
84.14.  Little, Brown (Boston). James Bradley Thayer, A Western Journey
with Mr. Emerson.
Printed on front (over vellum wrappers).
[Leach cat. 71-4 (1971), item 476 ($35). Leach sale (1984), lot 64
($40). Wilder cat. 15 (1985), item K ($150). Juvelis cat. 96-1 (1996),
item 67 ($600); 97-4 (1997), item 54 ($600). In stock of Mac Donnell
Rare Books, prior to 2005.] 
84.15.  Longmans, Green (London). Andrew Lang, The Princess Nobody.
Printed on front (including illustration from p. 51). [Lilly.] 
84.16.  Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier (Edinburgh). Anne S. Swann,
Carlowrie; or, Among Lothian Folk. Printed on front, spine, and
back (ad). [Ferret 1988 cat., item 133 (£65).] 
84.17.  Pu 9 nam (New York). Helen Kendrick Johnson (ed.), Short Sayings
of Famous Men.
Printed in red on front and spine (repeating cover)
and back (ads). [Leach sale (1984), lot 57 (not sold)*.] 
84.18.  Scribner (New York). "Ik Marvel" [Donald Grant Mitchell], Reveries
of a Bachelor.
Printed on spine. [Collection of G. T. Tanselle,
2005.] 
§ 84.19.  Thompson (New York). "Don Juan" [John E. Wheelock], In Search
of Gold: The Story of a Liberal Life.
Printed on front, spine, and
front flap (reading "Cut open at this line and use wrapper for outside
cover"). [Leach sale (1984), lot 65 ($32.50).] 

1885

   
85.1.  Appleton (New York). Alfred Ayres, The Verbalist. Printed on
front, spine, and back (ad for "Valuable Hand-Books"). [In stock
of Mac Donnell Rare Books, 2005.] 
85.2.  Appleton (New York). John Bach McMaster, A History of the
People of the United States.
Vol. 2. Printed on front, spine, and
back. [Collection of G. T. Tanselle, 2005 (my copy of vol. 1, 1883,
lacks the jacket; my copies of vols. 3-5, 1900, have the jackets).] 

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85.3.  Belford, Clarke (Chicago). George Eliot, Felix Holt. Ads for
Sohmer Pianos et al. on back. [Leach sale (1984), lot 69 ($5).] 
‡ 85.4.  Belford, Clarke (Chicago). George Eliot, Works. 7 vols. Box with
printed label (calling for 8 vols., but 7 fill the box); jackets printed
on spines. [Leach sale (1984), lot 70 ($30).] 
85.5.  Belford, Clarke (Chicago). W. F. Gill (ed.), Papyrus Leaves.
Printed on front (repeating title-page) [and other surfaces?]. [In
stock of Mac Donnell Rare Books, prior to 2005.] 
85.6.  Belford, Clarke (Chicago). "Siva" [Norman Carolan Perkins], A
Man of Destiny.
Printed in red on front, spine, and back (advertisement
for the book itself). [Collection of G. T. Tanselle, 2005.] 
85.7.  Adam & Charles Black (Edinburgh). Walter Scott, Waverley
Novels.
"Centenary Edition." 25 vols., 1885-87. Pink, printed in
brownish red on front, spine, back (ad on vols. 6-25), and flaps
(vols. 6-25). [Ferret 1988 cat., item 123 (£385).] 
Clarendon Press (Oxford). See 1884. 
85.8.  Estes & Lauriat (Boston). Lizzie W. Champney, Three Vassar Girls
in South America.
Lavender paper, printed on front (including
large picture and price), spine, and back (ad for six other books,
with picture). [Collection of G. T. Tanselle, 2005. Another copy
seen at booth of Tavistock Books, New York Book Fair, 28 April
2005 ($495).] 
85.9.  Estes & Lauriat (Boston). John Keats, The Eve of St. Agnes.
Printed on front. [Collection of Jacob Blanck, 1970.] 
85.10.  Estes & Lauriat (Boston). Edgar Allan Poe, Lenore. Printed on
front. [In stock of Mac Donnell Rare Books, 2005.] 
85.11.  Houghton Mifflin (Boston). Henry W. Longfellow, The Early
Poems.
Printed on front and spine. [Leach sale (1984), lot 73 ($10).] 
85.12.  Lee & Shepard (Boston). Michelangelo Buonarroti, Selected Poems.
Printed on front and spine (repeating cover). [Leach sale (1984), lot
66 (not sold)*.] 
† 85.13.  Lee & Shepard (Boston) and Charles T. Dillingham (New York).
Eleanor Talbot (ed., ill.), My Lady's Casket. Brown paper-covered
box, with printed top panel. [Collection of Ellen K. Morris and
Edward S. Levin, 2005.] 
85.14.  Lippincott (Philadelphia). Gabriel Harrison, John Howard Payne.
Rev. ed. Printed on front (including a musical staff, different from
the cover) and spine. [O'Neal cat. 13 (1976), item 29 ($35). Cedric
L. Robinson cat. 130 (1977), item 302 ($10), offering "new copies
in the original printed dust jacket." Leach sale (1984), lot 71 (two
copies, not sold). Collection of G. T. Tanselle, 2005.] 
85.15.  Lippincott (Philadelphia). Joseph A. Nunes, A Song of the Isle of
Cuba,
ill. F. C. Lummis. Printed on front and spine. [Leach sale
(1984), lot 74 ($10).] 

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85.16.  Macmillan (London). Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies. New
ed., ill. Linley Sambourne. [Toronto Public Library (Osborne Collection).
Cited by John S. Hayes in AB Bookman's Weekly, 66 (17
November 1980), 3295.] 
85.17.  McLoughlin Brothers (New York). Josephine Pollard, Our Hero
General U. S. Grant.
Jacket repeats cover illustrations. [Leach sale
(1984), lot 75 ($10).] 
85.18.  J. S. Ogilvie (New York). Mrs. M. A. Holmes, Woman against
Woman.
Printed on front, spine, and back. [Ohio State (Charvat
Collection); cited by Tibbetts (1973), p. 42.] 
85.19.  Kegan Paul, Trench (London). Andrew Lang, Rhymes à la Mode.
Printed on front and spine. [Lilly.] 
85.20.  Kegan Paul, Trench (London). Edgar Allan Poe, Poems, introd.
Andrew Lang. "Parchment Library." [Lilly.] 
85.21.  Roberts Brothers (Boston). Charles T. Brooks, Poems, Original
and Translated.
[Virginia (Barrett Collection).] 
85.22.  Smith, Elder (London). A Journel Kept by Richard Doyle in the
Year 1840,
introd. J. Hungerford Pollen. Printed on front and spine.
[Seen at Ulysses Bookshop, October 2003.] 

1886

               
86.2.  Adam & Charles Black (Edinburgh). Walter Scott, Waverley
Prayers for Church and Home.
Black paper-covered hinged box.
[Collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin, 2005.] 
86.2.  Adam & Charles Black (Edinburgh). Walter Scott, Waverley
Novels.
"Centenary Edition." 25 vols., 1885-87. Pink, printed in
brownish red on front, spine, back (ad on vols. 6-25), and flaps
(vols. 6-25). [Ferret 1988 cat., item 123 (£385).] 
86.3.  Cassell (New York). Jeannette H. Walworth, Without Blemish:
To-Day's Problem
[Negro blood]. [Mott cat. 202 (1979), item 194
($75, a copy "almost without blemish").] 
86.4.  Century (New York). Maurice Thompson, The Boys' Book of
Sports and Outdoor Life.
Printed in dark brown on front and spine.
[Leach sale (1984), lot 88 ($80).] 
86.5.  Chatto & Windus (London). Bret Harte, The Queen of the Pirate
Isle.
Printed in color with name of illustrator, Kate Greenaway,
noted. [Hime Biblioasis One cat. (1980), item 49 ($1000, with full-page
photograph of front on p. 23).] 
Clarendon Press (Oxford). See 1884. 
86.6.  Dutton (New York). Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Wreck
of the Hesperus.
[Collection of Herbert Kleist, 1970.] 
† 86.7.  Estes & Lauriat (Boston). Thomas Hood, Fair Ines. Box with
printed label. [Leach sale (1984), lot 83 ($5)*.] 

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86.8.  Estes & Lauriat (Boston). Edgar Allan Poe, Lenore. Printed on
front. [Wilder cat. 9 (1984), item 97 ($1750); cat. 15 (1985), item Z
($1250); list 87-A (1987), item 39 ($750); cat. 34 (1989), item 197
($750).] 
86.9.  Gilliss Bros. & Turnure, The Art Age Press (New York). Charles
Du Haijs, The Percheron Horse. [Mott cat. 215 (1986), item 53
($500).] 
86.10.  Griffith Farran (London). Edith Nesbit and Robert E. Mack
(eds.), Summer Songs and Sketches. Printed on front (includes pictorial
design not in book); jacket encloses thin booklet and has no
spine. [Described in Ferret 1988 cat., item 1 (£175).] 
86.11.  Harper (New York). Lee Meriwether, A Tramp Trip. Printed on
spine. [Leach sale (1984), lot 84 ($5)*.] 
86.12.  Harper (New York). Howard Pyle, Pepper & Salt; or, Seasoning
for Young Folk.
Printed on front. [Houghton. Leach sale (1984),
lot 85 ($160).] 
86.13.  Charles Hindley (London). Charles Hindley, The History of the
Catnach Press.
Blue, printed on front, spine, back (including comment
on Catnach), and flaps (all surfaces including woodcuts; 41
mm. of each flap turned in and pasted down for strength, perhaps
by former owner). [Collection of Peter C. G. Isaac, 1975; discussed
by him (1975), pp. 51-52 (illustrated). Seen at booth of Tavistock
Books, New York Book Fair, 28 April 2005 ($475).] 
86.14.  C. F. Lawrence (Worcester, Mass.). Ferdinand Gagnon: Sa vie et
ses oeuvres.
Printed on front. [Leach sale (1984), lot 81 ($5).] 
‡ 86.15.  Lee & Shepard (Boston) and Charles T. Dillingham (New York).
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Dora. Box; jacket printed on front (repeating
title-page) and back (ad). [Leach sale (1984), lot 86 (without
jacket; not sold); lot 87 (without box; $27.50). In stock of Mac
Donnell Rare Books, 2005 (without box).] 
86.16.  Sampson Low (London). Jules Verne, Mathias Sandorf. Light blue,
printed in dark blue. [Ferret cat. Q88 (January 1990), item 575
(£650).] 
86.17.  J. S. Ogilvie (New York). T. DeWitt Talmage, The Marriage Ring:
A Series of Sermons.
Printed on front (with illustration and frame
different from cover and title-page), spine (with title The Wedding
Ring
), and back. [Brick Row Bookshop cat. 98 (1973), item 747
($20). Collection of G. T. Tanselle, 2005.] 
86.18.  Kegan Paul, Trench (London). Edward Dowden, The Life of
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
2 vols. [Seen at Ximenes Book Shop, 18 June
1979 ($50).] 
86.19.  Providence Press Company (Providence, R.I.). William F. Hutchinson,
A Winter Holiday. Printed on front. [Cited by John T.
Winterich in Publishers' Weekly, 117 (18 January 1930), 351-352;
and by Rosner (1954), p. xv.] 

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86.20.  Rice & Drake [printer] (Waltham, Mass.). "Didama" [Betsy Ann
White], Three Holes in the Chimney; or, A Scattered Family.
Printed on front (including decorative rules at top and bottom
extending onto spine). [Collection of G. T. Tanselle, 2005.] 
86.21.  Scribner (New York). Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy.
[Cited by John S. Van E. Kohn in Publishers' Weekly, 132
(30 October 1937), 1732-35.] 

1887

                           
87.1.  Allbut & Daniel (Hanley). "A Middy," Charles Wyndham. Pictorial
spine. [Wilder cat. 15 (1985), item W ($225).] 
87.2.  Appleton (New York). Ralph Abercromby, Weather. [Wilder cat.
70 (1994), item 1 ($225).] 
87.3.  Appleton (New York). Alfred M. Mayer and Charles Barnard,
Light. "The Experimental Science Series." Ad on back for the series.
[Leach sale (1984), lot 92 ($5).] 
87.4.  Arnold & Co. (Philadelphia). Mrs. S. T. Rorer, Canning and Preserving.
Printed on front, spine, and back. [Leach sale (1984), lot 93
($12.50).] 
87.5.  Adam & Charles Black (Edinburgh). Walter Scott, Waverley Novels.
"Centenary Edition." 25 vols., 1885-87. Pink, printed in brownish
red on front, spine, back (ad on vols. 6-25), and flaps (vols.
6-25). [Ferret 1988 cat., item 123 (£385).] 
87.6.  A. L. Burt (New York). Augusta Evans Wilson, At the Mercy of
Tiberius.
Printed on front and spine (repeating cover) and back
(ad). [In stock of Mac Donnell Rare Books, 2005.] 
87.7.  Cassell (New York). J. H. Chadwick, The Whole Truth. Printed
on front, spine, and back. [Kent State; cited by Keller (1971), p. 33.] 
† 87.8.  Cassell (New York). Walter Scott, Christmas in the Olden Time,
ill. Childe Hassam et al. Box, lettered on top. [Leach sale (1984),
lot 94 ($40).] 
Clarendon Press (Oxford). See 1884. 
† 87.9.  Harper (New York). William Hamilton Gibson, Happy Hunting-Grounds.
Box with printed label. [Leach sale (1984), lot 90 ($45).] 
87.10.  Houghton Mifflin (Boston). Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Jack the
Fisherman.
Printed on front. [Pennsylvania State University.] 
87.11.  Longmans, Green (London). Charles Deulin, Johnny Nut and The
Golden Goose,
trans. Andrew Lang. Printed in brown on front and
spine (repeating signed cover design by W. Reader). [Lilly. Collection
of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin, 2005.] 
87.12.  Lothrop (Boston). John Brownjohn, The Exploits of Miltiades
Peterkin Paul.
Printed on front (repeating title-page) and back (ad).
[Leach sale (1984), lot 89 (not sold).] 
87.13.  Lovejoy's Library (Reading). E. W. [Elizabeth Waterhouse], The
Island of Anarchy.
Printed in red on front. [Wilder cat. 15 (1985), 

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item HI ($650); list 87-A (1987), item 54 ($685). Ferret 1988 cat.,
item 144 (not for sale; reports having seen another copy in jacket).] 
87.14.  Kegan Paul, Trench (London). Andrew Lang, Rhymes à la Mode.
Printed on front, spine, and back. [Lilly.] 
84.15.  Putnam (New York). Washington Irving, Works. 12 vols. "Tappan
Zee Edition." Printed on spines. [Leach sale (1984, lot 91 (10 vols.;
not sold).] 
87.16.  Franklin P. Rice (Worcester, Mass.). Sancta Croce: A Nicotian
Treatise.
Printed on front (with title) and back ("Q.B.C." [Quinsigamond
Boat Club]—thus possibly not the publisher's jacket; but
it may be because the title of the book is printed). [Leach sale
(1984), lot 95 ($25; two copies).] 
87.17.  Roberts Brothers (Boston). Albion Tourgée, Button's Inn.
Printed on front and spine. [Collection of Roger E. Stoddard,
1970.] 
87.18.  Walter Scott (London). Walt Whitman, Specimen Days in America.
[In stock of Mac Donnell Rare Books, prior to 2005.] 
87.19.  Scribner (New York). H. C. Bunner, The Story of a New York
House.
Printed in lavender on front (including illustration, as on
cover, by A. B. Frost), spine, and back (advertisement for other
Bunner books). [Collection of G. T. Tanselle, 2005.] 
87.20.  Scribner (New York). Harold Frederic, Seth's Brother's Wife.
[Swann sale 968, 14 November 1974, lot 214. In stock of Serendipity
Books, May 1979.] 

1888

         
† 88.1.  Samuel E. Cassino (Boston). Lurabel Harlow, Louisa May Alcott:
A Souvenir.
Box with printed label. [In stock of Mac Donnell Rare
Books, prior to 2005.] 
88.2.  Belford, Clarke (Chicago). George Macdonald, Wilfrid Cumbermede.
"Caxton Edition." Printed on front and spine (repeating
cover) and back and flaps (ads for "Best Edition of Caxton 12mos").
[Leach sale (1984), lot 108 (not sold).] 
88.3.  Belford, Clarke (Chicago). Dinah Maria Mulock, John Halifax,
Gentleman.
"Caxton Edition." Printed on front and spine (with
design for the series, incorporating space where title of book is
printed in red) and back (list of 200 titles in "1888 Edition"). [Collection
of G. T. Tanselle, 2005.] 
88.4.  Belford, Clarke (Chicago). "Fanny Fern" [Sara Payson Parton],
Fern Leaves from Fanny's Port-Folio. "Caxton Edition." Printed
on front, spine, and back (ad for "Caxton 12mos"). [Leach sale
(1984), lot 112 ($5).] 
88.5.  Century (New York). Theodore Roosevelt, Ranch Life and the
Hunting-Trail.
Front includes illustration by George Wharton
Edwards. [Reported to me by Anthony Fair, 1970; Parke-Bernet's
"PB-84" cat. 114 (6 November 1970), lot 161; bought by Charles H.
Leavell; illustrated by Tanselle (1971), plate 8.] 

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88.6.  Clarendon Press (Oxford). Perrault's Popular Tales, ed. Andrew
Lang. Printed on spine. [Lilly.] 
Clarendon Press (Oxford). See also 1884. 
88.7.  Crowell (New York). Leo Tolstoy, What Men Live By. Printed
on front. [In stock of Mac Donnell Rare Books, 2005 (later printing?).]  
† 88.8.  Dodd, Mead (New York). Elizabeth W. Little, A Log-Book: Notes
through Life.
Pictorial box, with label repeating front cover. [Leach
sale (1984), lot 106 ($10)*. Finer cat. 21 (1985), item 247 ($35).] 
88.9.  Estes & Lauriat (Boston). Elizabeth W. Champney, Three Vassar
Girls in France.
Pictorial jacket; ad on back for "Capital Books for
Young People." [Leach sale (1984), lot 102 ($30)*.] 
88.10.  Harper (New York). Charles Follen Adams, Dialect Ballads.
Printed on front (including blurb) and spine (including price).
[Leach sale (1984), lot 96 ($37.50).] 
88.11.  Harper (New York). George T. Fish, A Guide to the Conduct of
Meetings.
Printed on spine. [Leach sale (1984), lot 104 (not sold)*.] 
88.12.  Harper (New York). Kirk Munroe, Derrick Sterling. "Young
People Series." [Virginia (Barrett Collection).] 
88.13.  Houghton Mifflin (Boston). John Fiske, The Critical Period of
American History, 1783-1789.
Printed on spine. [Leach sale (1984),
lot 105 (not sold)*.] 
88.14.  Houghton Mifflin (Boston). Oliver Wendell Holmes, Before the
Curfew and Other Poems, Chiefly Occasional.
Printed on front
(with title and lyre, as on cover). [Beinecke. Houghton. Huntington.
James Cummins cat. 16 (1985), item 168 ("Sold"). In stock of
Robert Rulon-Miller, 21 October 1988. Collection of G. T. Tanselle
(2 copies), 2005.] 
88.15.  Houghton Mifflin (Boston). James Russell Lowell, Heartsease
and Rue.
Printed in dark green on front and spine (repeating
cover). [Leach sale (1984), lot 107 ($40).] 
88.16.  Houghton Mifflin (Boston). Olive Thorne Miller, In Nesting
Time.
Printed on spine. [Leach sale (1984), lot 109 ($5)*.] 
88.17.  Houghton Mifflin (Boston). Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Hobson Richardson and His Work.
Printed on front. [Newberry.
Collection of Richard S. Barnes, 1970s.] 
88.18.  Jordan, Marsh (Boston). Frances Hodgson Burnett, Editha's Burglar.
Printed on front (repeating cover) and back (ads). [Leach sale
(1984), lot 100 ($80). Martin sale (1990), lot 2315 ($330 for lot of
four volumes). Seen at Books of Wonder, 26 March 1994.] 
88.19.  Longmans, Green (London). A. G. Steel and R. H. Lyttelton,
Cricket. "The Badminton Library." Printed on front and spine.
[Lilly.] 

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† 88.20.  Lothrop (Boston). Emma Huntington Nason, White Sails. Box
with printed label. [Leach sale (1984), lot 111 (not sold)*.] 
88.21.  Joel Munsell's Sons (Albany). American Ancestry. Vol. 3. Jacket
repeats cover. [Leach sale (1984), lot 97 ($5).] 
88.22.  Obpacher Bros. (Munich and New York). C. W. Reed and Louis
K. Harlow, Bits of Camp Life. Printed in brown on front (with
illustration). [Leach sale (1984), lot 474 ($35). Wilder cat. 20 (1986),
item 8A ($225).] 
88.23.  Kegan Paul, Trench (London). Andrew Lang, XXXII Ballades
in Blue China.
Printed on front, spine, and back. [Lilly.] 
88.24.  Porter & Coates (Philadelphia). T. S. Arthur, Orange Blossoms.
"Alta Edition" (No. 59). Advertising on back lists titles in series
through No. 162 (1888). [Collection of Herbert Kleist, 1970.] 
¢ 88.25.  Anson D. F. Randolph (New York). Fanny B. Bates (ed.), Between
the Lights.
Blue cloth, printed in gold on spine. [Leach sale (1984),
lot 99 ($20; two copies).] 
88.26.  Routledge (London). Kate Greenaway, Almanack for 1889. [Reese
cat. 40 (1986), item 292 ($200).] 
88.27.  Scribner (New York). Frances Hodgson Burnett, Sara Crewe.
Printed on front, spine, and back (ad). [Kent State; cited by Keller
(1971), p. 33. Seen at Books of Wonder, 26 March 1994. Juvelis cat.
97-3 (1997), item 82 ($2000).] 
88.28.  Scribner (New York). "Ik Marvel" [Donald Grant Mitchell], Reveries
of a Bachelor.
[Noted by Harrison Hayford in stock of D. C.
Allen, 1970s. In stock of Serendipity Books, August 1979.] 
88.29.  J. Stilman Smith (Boston). Edward Everett Hale, My Friend the
Boss.
Printed on front (with title page, including date). [Virginia
(Barrett Collection). Minkoff cat. 86-C (1986), item 66 ($275).] 
88.30.  Stokes (New York). "Owen Meredith" [Edward Bulwer-Lytton],
Lucile [title-page dated 1888]. Printed on spine (with publisher as
"White, Stokes & Allen" [1883-87]). [Collection of Herbert Kleist,
1977.] 

1889

       
89.1.  American Publishers (New York). Mayne Reid et al., Stories about
Animals.
New Edition. "The Berkeley Series of Books for Boys."
Printed on front and spine (repeating cover) and back (ad for series).
[Leach sale (1984), lot 125 ($7.50).] 
89.2.  Appleton (New York). David Kay, Memory. "The International
Education Series." Printed in brown, with ad for series on back.
[Leach sale (1984), lot 121 ($5).] 
89.3.  Art Lithograph Publishing Co. (Munich and New York). James
Russell Lowell, An Indian Summer Reverie. Pictorial jacket. [In
stock of Tamerlane Books, prior to 2000 ($100).] 
89.4.  Belford, Clarke (Chicago). Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre. "Caxton
Edition." Jacket with design for series. [Juvelis cat. 96-1 (1996),
item 154 ($150).] 

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89.5.  Belford, Clarke (Chicago). Jane Porter, Thaddeus of Warsaw.
Printed on front and spine (repeating cover) and back and flaps
(ads). [Leach sale (1984), lot 124 ($5).] 
89.6.  Robert Bonner's Sons (New York). Oliver Dyer, Great Senators
of the United States Forty Years Ago.
Printed on front and spine
(repeating cover). [Georgetown University, Leach sale (1984), lot
117 (not sold).] 
89.7.  Clarendon Press (Oxford). Francis T. Palgrave (ed.), The Treasury
of Sacred Song.
Printed in blue and red. [Wilder cat. 61 (1993), p.
16 ($375); cat. 72 (1995), item 43 ($375).] 
Clarendon Press (Oxford). See also 1884. 
89.8.  Dillingham (New York). Linn B. Porter, Thou Shalt Not (New
Series
). Printed on front, spine, and back. [Ohio State (Charvat
Collection); cited by Tibbetts (1973), p. 42.] 
89.9.  Dodd, Mead (New York). Bayard Tuckerman, Life of General
Lafayette.
Limited edition. 2 vols. Printed on spines. [Leach sale
(1984), lot 127 ($20).] 
89.10.  R. R. Donnelley (Chicago). Ernest Ingersoll, The Crest of the
Continent.
Printed in brown on front and spine (repeating cover).
[Leach sale (1984), lot 119 ($30).] 
89.11.  R. R. Donnelley (Chicago). Stanley Wood, Over the Range to the
the Golden Gate.
[Hunley cat. 53 (1981), item 426 ($50).] 
89.12.  Estes & Lauriat (Boston). Elizabeth W. Champney, Three Vassar
Girls Abroad.
Printed on front (including illustration and price),
spine, and back (ad). [Leach sale (1984), lot 116 ($30).] 
89.13.  Estes & Lauriat (Boston). Charles B. Cory, The Birds of the West
Indies.
Printed on spine. [Seen at Selected Works (Chicago), 20
August 1996.] 
89.14.  Griffith, Farran, O Keden & Welsh (London). E. Oxenford and
A. Scott Gatty, Sing Me a Song. Printed on front and back. [Bodleian
(John Carter Collection).] 
‡ 89.15.  Harper (New York). Old Songs, ill. Edwin A. Abbey and Alfred
Parsons. Decorated box; jacket printed on front. [Leach sale (1984),
lot 122 ($10).] 
‡ 89.16.  Harper (New York). Lew Wallace, The Boyhood of Christ. Box
with printed label and a folding side; jacket printed in green on
front. [New York University (Fales Collection): 2 copies, both in
jacket, one in box. Leach sale (1984), lot 128 ($17.50). Collection of
G. T. Tanselle, 2005.] 
¢ 89.17.  Houghton Mifflin (Boston). Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble
Faun.
2 vols. Red cloth, printed in gold on spine. [Collection of
Charles Gullans, 1971.] 

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89.18.  Houghton Mifflin (Boston). Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Jack the
Fisherman.
Printed on front. [Leach sale (1984), lot 123 (not sold).] 
89.19.  Houghton Mifflin (Boston). F Hopkinson Smith, A White Umbrella
in Mexico.
Printed on front (including drawing of umbrella)
and spine. [Leach sale (1984), lot 126 ($30). Collection of G. T.
Tanselle, 2005.] 
89.20.  Houghton Mifflin (Boston). Kate Douglas Wiggin, The Bird's
Christmas Carol.
Printed on front and spine (repeating cover). [In
stock of Mac Donnell Rare Books, 2005.] 
89.21.  Longmans, Green (London). Richard Jefferies, Field and Hedgerow.
2nd printing. Green, printed on front and spine (derived
from cover). [Described in George Miller and Hugoe Matthews's
Richard Jefferies: A Bibliographical Study (1993), entry B26.3 (pp.
538-539).] 
89.22.  Longmans, Green (London). Andrew Lang, The Blue Fairy Book.
Printed on front and spine. [Lilly; cited by Josiah Q. Bennett in
The David A. Randall Retrospective Memorial Exhibition:
Twenty Years' Acquisitions
(1975), entry 123.] 
89.23.  Lothrop (Boston). Laura D. Nichols, Lotus Bay: A Summer on
Cape Cod.
Printed on front (including title-page illustration),
spine, and back. [Juvelis cat. 94-4 (1994), item 10 ($175); cat. 97-3
(1997), item 94 ($175).] 
89.24.  Sampson Low (London). Ernest Giles, Australia Twice Traversed.
2 vols. Printed on front (including illustration from cover) and
spine. [Hordern House cat. of 1999, item 43 (illustrated; $17,500).] 
89.25.  David McKay (Philadelphia). Gems from Walt Whitman, ed.
Elizabeth Porter Gould. [Waiting for Godot Books cat. 37 (1998),
item 1943 ($2750, inscribed and annotated by editor).] 
‡ 89.26.  Putnam (New York). Washington Irving, The Life of George
Washington.
"Limited Centennial Edition." 5 vols. Separate box
for each volume; jackets printed in brown on front and spine.
[Leach sale (1984), lot 120 ($100).] 
89.27.  Routledge (London). Octave Feuillet, The Romance of a Poor
Young Man.
Printed on front and back (including color illustrations
by Ludovic Mouchot) and spine. [Seen at William Hale
Bookshop, 15 October 1993 ($250). Collection of Ellen K. Morris
and Edward S. Levin, 2005.] 
89.28.  Routledge (London). Kate Greenaway, Almanack for 1890. Printed
in brown on front. [Collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S.
Levin, 2005 (in plain mailing envelope).] 
89.29.  Frederick Warne (London). Horace, The Odes, Epodes, Satires,
and Epistles.
"Chandos Classics." Printed on spine (including
"Chandos Classics No. 132" [number not given in book]). [Collection
of G. T. Tanselle, 2005.] 

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89.30.  Whittet & Shepperson (Richmond, Va.). Carlton McCarthy, Our
Distingished Fellow-Citizens.
Green, printed on front. [Seen at
Antiquariat Hindricks, 23 October 1993 ($125).] 
89.31.  Charles Whittingham [printer] (London). A. H. Bullen (ed.),
Musa Proteria: Love Poems of the Restoration. Maroon, printed
on spine. [Collection of Herbert Kleist, 1977. Wilder list 87-A
(1987), item 4 ($100).] 

1890

                   
90.1.  American Humane Education Society (Boston). Anna Sewell,
Black Beauty (with stamp on contents page reading "Presented
by James Hislap & Co., New London, Conn. Xmas 1890"). Jacket
has imprint of James Hislap & Co. [Wilder cat. 15 (1985), item
CI ($350).] 
90.2.  Appleton (New York). Arabella B. Buckley, Through Magic
Glasses and Other Lectures.
Printed in black and red on front and
spine (repeating cover) and back (ad). [Leach sale (1984), lot 136
($10).] 
90.3.  Adam & Charles Black (Edinburgh). Walter Scott, The Antiquary.
"The Waverley Novels." Printed on front, spine, back, and flaps.
[Bodleian (John Carter Collection).] 
Clarendon Press (Oxford). See 1884. 
90.4.  Crowell (New York). Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days.
"Luxembourg Edition." Printed in brown on front and spine.
[Leach sale (1984), lot 147 (not sold)*.] 
90.5.  Donohue, Henneberry (Chicago). W. Gilmore Simms, Border
Beagles.
"Caxton Edition" (No. 10). Printed on front (repeating
cover), spine (repeating cover, plus series number), and back (list of
series). [Collection of G. T. Tanselle, 2005.] 
90.6.  Donohue, Henneberry (Chicago). W. Gilmore Simms, Katharine
Walton.
"Caxton Edition" (No. 53). Printed on front (repeating
cover), spine (repeating cover, plus series number), and back (list of
series). [Collection of G. T. Tanselle, 2005.] 
90.7.  Donohue, Henneberry (Chicago). W. Gilmore Simms, Mellichampe.
"Caxton Edition" (No. 61). Printed on front (repeating
cover), spine (repeating cover, plus series number), and back (list of
series). [Collection of G. T. Tanselle, 2005.] 
90.8.  Donohue, Henneberry (Chicago). W. Gilmore Simms, Woodcraft.
"Caxton Edition" (No. 106). Printed on front (repeating cover),
spine (repeating cover, plus series number), and back (list of series).
[Collection of G. T. Tanselle, 2005.] 
90.9.  Donohue, Henneberry (Chicago). W. Gilmore Simms, The Yemassee.
"Caxton Edition" (No. 107). Printed on front (repeating
cover), spine (repeating cover, plus series number), and back (list
of series). [Collection of G. T. Tanselle, 2005.] 

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90.10.  Dunlap Society (New York). Laurence Hutton and William Carey
(eds.), Occasional Addresses. Jacket over wrappers. [Leaves of Grass
cat. 8 (1979), item 13.] 
¢ 90.11.  Estes & Lauriat (Boston). George Eliot, Romola. 2 vols. Red cloth,
printed in gold on spine. [Reported to National Library of Canada,
January 1976. In stock of Mac Donnell Rare Books, 2005.] 
90.12.  Estes & Lauriat (Boston). Fred A. Ober, The Knockabout Club in
North Africa.
Printed in brown on front (including illustration and
ad), spine(?), and back (ad for "Entertaining Juveniles"). [Leach
sale (1984), lot 155 ($20).] 
90.13.  Fergus Printing Co. (Chicago). Edward G. Mason, Early Chicago
and Illinois.
Chicago Historical Society Collections, vol. 4. [Reported
to me by Terence Tanner, 18 October 1972.] 
90.14.  Harper (New York). Lafcadio Hearn, Youma. Yellow, printed on
spine. [Virginia (Barrett Collection); described by Crane (Summer
1973), p. 37.] 
90.15.  Harper (New York). William Dean Howells, The Shadow of a
Dream.
[Cited by Alexander S. Graham in Publishers' Weekly, 117
(18 January 1930), 351-352; and by Rosner (1954), p. xv, as the
"earliest known USA pictorial dust jacket."] 
90.16.  Harper (New York). Jorge Isaacs, María, introd. Thomas A.
Janvier. Printed on spine. [New York University (Fales Collection).] 
90.17.  Harper (New York). Thomas A. Janvier, The Aztec Treasure-House.
[Virginia (Barrett Collection).] 
90.18.  Harper (New York). Modern Ghosts, introd. George William
Curtis. Printed on spine. [New York University (Fales Collection).] 
‡ 90.19.  Harper (New York). Austin Dobson et al., "The Quiet Life":
Certain Verses by Various Hands.
Decorated box; jacket printed in
red on front. [Leach sale (1984), lot 159 (not sold).] 
90.20.  Harper (New York). Giovanni Verga, The House by the MedlarTree,
introd. William Dean Howells. Printed on spine. [New York
University (Fales Collection).] 
90.21.  Houghton Mifflin (Boston). Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Wyndham
Towers.
Printed on spine. [Boss cat. 7 (1991), item 2. Sumner &
Stillman cat. 52 (1994), item 2 ($195).] 
† 90.22.  Houghton Mifflin (Boston). Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble
Faun.
2 vols. Red cloth box, with gold lettering on end (books are
in unprinted red cloth jackets). [Wilder list 87-A (1987), item 28
(lacks box; $185). Collection of G. T. Tanselle, 2005. In stock of
Mac Donnell Rare Books, 2005.] 
90.23.  Houghton Mifflin (Boston). Sarah Orne Jewett, Strangers and
Wayfarers.
Green jacket. [Amherst College.] 
90.24.  Houghton Mifflin (Boston). John Greenleaf Whittier, Legends
and Lyrics.
[In stock of Mac Donnell Rare Books, prior to 2005.] 
† 90.25.  Joseph Knight (Boston). Walter Kittredge, Tenting on the Old
Camp Ground.
Box with printed label. [Leach sale (1984), lot 149
($10).] 

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90.26.  Little, Brown (Boston). Nora Perry, Another Flock of Girls.
Printed in brown (including illustration on front). [Leach sale
(1984), lot 156 ($25).] 
90.27.  Longmans, Green (London). Andrew Lang, The Red Fairy Book.
Printed on front and spine. [Lilly.] 
90.28.  Lothrop (Boston). Margaret Sidney, An Adirondack Cabin.
Printed in dark green and red on front and spine (repeating cover).
[Leach sale (1984), lot 162 ($20).] 
90.29.  National Book Co. (New York). Matilda Betham-Edwards, For
One and the World.
Red, printed on spine. [Leach sale (1984), lot
130 (not sold).] 
90.30.  National Book Co. (New York). D. Christie Murray and Henry
Herman, The Bishop's Bible. Printed on spine. [Leach sale (1984),
lot 153 (not sold).] 
90.31.  Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner (London). Andrew Lang, Rhymes
à la Mode.
Printed on front, spine, and back. [Lilly.] 
†¢ 90.32.  Porter & Coates (Philadelphia). George Eliot, Romola. Large
paper. 2 vols. Box with lettering; red cloth jackets, printed on
spines. [Bradley cat. 36 (1974), item 262 (without box?). Lawrence
sale (1983), lot 209 (without box; [3 vols.?]). Leach sale (1984), lot
142 (two copies, both in box, one in jacket; not sold). Wilder cat.
15 (1985), item J ($100).] 
¢ 90.33.  Porter & Coates (Philadelphia). Grace and Philip Wharton, The
Wits and Beaux of Society.
Large paper. 2 vols. Red cloth, printed
on spines. [Seen at Book Barn, Wells, Me., 15 August 1993 ($35).] 
¢ 90.34.  Rand, McNally (Chicago). Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Last Days
of Pompeii.
2 vols. Red cloth, printed on front and spine. [Leach
sale (1984), lot 151 ($5)*.] 
90.35.  Rand, McNally (Chicago). G. O. Shields, Camping and Camp
Outfits.
Printed on front and spine. [Leach sale (1984), lot 161
($55).] 
90.36.  Roberts Brothers (Boston). Hamilton Wright Mabie, Our New
England, Her Nature Described.
Printed on front and spine.
[Beinecke: 2 copies.] 
90.37.  Routledge (London). Kate Greenaway, Almanack for 1891. Back
flap larger than the front, to be wrapped around the fore-edge and
sealed to create a mailing envelope (space for postage stamp is part
of the printed front panel). [Wilder cat. 9 (1984), item 51 ($675);
cat. 15 (1985), item Q ($275).] 
90.38.  Routledge (New York). Hugh Craig, Grand Army Picture Book.
Printed on front, spine, and back (repeating panorama from cover).
[Leach sale (1984), lot 139 ($85).] 

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90.39.  Routledge (New York). Hugh Craig, Great African Travellers.
Printed on front (and perhaps other surfaces). [Collection of
Michael Zinman, 1995.] 
90.40.  Schirmer (New York). Rebekah Crawford and Louise Morgan Still,
Musicians in Rhyme for Childhood's Time, ill. Albert D. Blashfield.
Printed in brown on front and back (repeating cover). [Leach sale
(1984), lot 140 (not sold).] 
90.41.  Scribner (New York). "Ik Marvel" [Donald Grant Mitchell], Reveries
of a Bachelor.
Printed on spine. [Leach sale (1984), lot 152
(not sold).] 
90.42.  Stokes (New York). "Owen Meredith" [Edward Bulwer-Lytton],
Lucile. [Collection of Herbert Kleist, 1970: imprint on spine conforms
to style of firm name from 1887 to 1890; imprint on title-page
of this copy conforms to style that began in 1890.] 
90.43.  Whidden (Boston), J. H. Emerton, The Structure and Habits of
Spiders.
Printed on spine. [Leach sale (1984), lot 143 ($15).] 

Approximate Dates

Circa 1865

 
† X.1.  T. Nelson (London). Barbara Hofland, "Mrs. Hofland's Library for
the Young" (ca. 1865). 4 vols. Box with label (label imprint is "New
York: T. Nelson & Sons"). [Leach sale (1984), lot 4 ($30).] 

1870s

 
X.2.  Putnam (New York). Washington Irving, The Conquest of Granada
(1870s). "Handy Volume Edition." Printed in dark green,
with initials "RWC" in lower corner. [Wilder cat. 15 (1985), item
U ($45); list 87-A (1987), item 32 ($150).] 

Circa 1877-79

 
X.3.  Sampson Low (London). Harrison Weir (ed.), The Poetry of Nature
(ca. 1877-79). Printed on front with American imprint ("New
York: Scribner, Welford & Armstrong"). [Leach sale (1984), lot
13 ($20).] 

Circa 1880

   
X.4.  Appleton (New York). William Cullen Bryant, Poetical Works
(ca. 1880). Printed on front and spine (repeating cover) and back
(ad). [Leach sale (1984), lot 23 ($20).] 
† X.5.  Routledge (London). Thomas Moore, Poetical Works (ca. 1880).
"Routledge's Illustrated Edition of the Poets." Box with printed
label (including list of other titles in series). [Collection of Ellen K.
Morris and Edward S. Levin, 2005.] 

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Circa 1880s

 
X.6.  Hodder & Stoughton (London). Walter Scott, In Ye Olden Time
(ca. 1880s). Printed on front and back (derived from cover designs).
[Ferret 1988 cat., item 122 (£55).] 

1880s or 1890s

 
X.7.  Raphael Tuck & Sons (London). Helen Marion Burnside, Christmas
Lights
(1880s or 1890s). Printed in brown; front repeats cover
illustration. [Juvelis cat. 94-4 (1994), item 13 ($300).] 

Circa 1881

 
† X.8.  Routledge (New York). The Handy-Volume Shakespeare (ca. 1881).
13 vols. Green box, with printed label inside lid. [Leach sale (1984),
lot 37 ($10).] 

Circa 1885

       
X.9.  Belford, Clarke (Chicago). [Dinah Maria Muloch], Miss Tommy
(ca. 1885). "Caxton Edition." Printed on front, spine, and back (ad
for "Best Editions of Caxton 12mos"). [Leach sale (1984), lot
67 ($5).] 
X.10.  Belford, Clarke (Chicago). Doris: A Novel (ca. 1885). "Caxton
Edition." Printed on front, spine, and back (ad for "Caxton
12mos"). [Leach sale (1984), lot 68 (not sold).] 
X.11.  Belford, Clarke (Chicago). Jane Porter, Thaddeus of Warsaw (ca.
1885). Printed on front and spine (repeating cover). [Leach sale
(1984), lot 76 (not sold).] 
‡ X.12.  Dutton (New York). Henry W. Longfellow, The Day Is Done
(ca. 1885). Box, printed on front; jacket printed in dark brown on
front. [Leach sale (1984), lot 72 ($40).] 

Circa 1888

       
X.13.  Belford, Clarke (Chicago). Samuel W. Baker, Eight Years' Wanderings
in Ceylon
(ca. 1888). "Caxton Edition." Printed on front
and spine (repeating cover) and back (ad for "Caxton 12mos").
[Leach sale (1984), lot 98 (not sold).] 
X.14.  Conkey (Chicago). Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Maurine and Other Poems
(1888 or later). (1) Printed in brown on front and spine. (2) Printed
on front and spine (including drawings) and back panel and front
flap (ads); jacket has imprint of Albert Whitman (Chicago),
Conkey's distributor. [(1) Collection of G. T. Tanselle, 2005. (2) In
stock of Mac Donnell Rare Books, 2005.] 
X.15.  DeWolfe, Fiske (Boston). Charles Dickens, A Child's History of
England
(ca. 1888). Printed on front and spine (repeating cover)
and back (ad). [Leach sale (1984), lot 103 ($5).] 
X.16.  Dutton (New York). J. Denham Smith, F. Whitfield, et al., Resting:
A Selection of Verses
(ca. 1888). Printed on front (repeating cover
illustration). [Leach sale (1984), lot 113 (not sold).] 

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Circa 1890

                             
† X.17.  Art Lithograph Publishing Co. (New York). Isa J. Postgate, A
Flight into Fayland
(ca. 1890). Box with printed label. [Leach sale
(1984), lot 157 (not sold).] 
X.18.  Dana, Estes (Boston). Hezekiah Butterworth, A Zigzag Journey in
the Sunny South
(ca. 1890). Printed on front and spine (repeating
cover). [Leach sale (1984), lot 137 (not sold).] 
X.19.  Dana, Estes (Boston). Laura E. Richards, Melody (ca. 1890). Printed
on front (repeating cover) and spine. [Leach sale (1984), lot 160
($5).] 
X.20.  DeWolfe, Fiske (Boston). Thomas DeQuincey, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
William Makepeace Thackeray, et al., Good Stories (ca.
1890). Printed on front and spine (repeating cover) and back (ad).
[Leach sale (1984), lot 145 (not sold).] 
‡ X.21.  Dutton (New York). Phillips Brooks, Poems (ca. 1890). Box printed
in gold; jacket printed in gold on front. [Leach sale (1984), lot 134
($10).] 
† X.22.  Dutton (New York). Evelyn Nesbit, The Lily and the Cross (ca.
1890). Box with printed label. [Leach sale (1984), lot 154 ($5).] 
X.23.  Dutton (New York). A Posy of Winter Roses (ca. 1890). Printed in
brown on front with floral decoration. [Leach sale (1984), lot 158
(not sold).] 
X.24.  Harper (New York). Ignatius Donnelly, Atlantis (ca. 1890). Printed
on spine. [Leach sale (1984), lot 141 ($22.50).] 
† X.25.  Illustrated Booklet Co. (Chicago). Life of Abraham Lincoln (ca.
1890). Box lettered in gold. [Leach sale (1984), lot 150 (not sold).] 
X.26.  Lee & Shepard (Boston). Nathaniel H. Bishop, Voyage of the Paper
Canoe
(ca. 1890). Printed on spine. [Leach sale (1984), lot 131 ($35).] 
X.27.  Lothrop, Lee & Shepard (Boston). Sarah K. Bolton, How Success Is
Won
(ca. 1890). Orange, printed on front and spine (repeating
cover). [Leach sale (1984), lot 133 ($7.50).] 
X.28.  Obpacher Bros. (Munich and New York). Jessie Chase, Resurrection
Gladness
(ca. 1890). Printed in brown on front with flower
ornament. [Leach sale (1984), lot 138 ($30).] 
¢ X.29.  Porter & Coates (Philadelphia). R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone
(ca. 1890). 20th edition. Cloth, printed in gold on spine. [In stock
of Mac Donnell Rare Books, 2005.] 
† X.30.  Frank S. Thayer (Denver). Gems of Colorado Scenery, ill. from
photographs by W. H. Jackson (ca. 1890). Box with label. [Leach
sale (1984), lot 144 ($60).] 
†¢X.31.  Winston (Philadelphia). R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone (ca. 1890).
2 vols. Box lettered in gold; cloth jackets printed on spine. [Leach
sale (1984), lot 132 ($10).]