1894

Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush

By Ian Maclaren

Rare Antique Book ~ Decorative-Cloth Publisher’s Binding ~ Signed-Binding Designed by Frank Berkeley Smith ~ Frontispiece by F. C. Gordon

Publisher:

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1894.

Features:

Measures 6.4 x 4.3 inches.

Original decorative-cloth publisher’s binding: green cloth with black, blue, and silver-gilt stamping.

Signed-binding by Frank Berekely Smith with his cipher at the lower right corner.

Vignette title page.

Frontispiece by Frederick Charles Gordon.

218 pages.

Condition:

Very Good +.

The covers are crisp, clean, and bright. The textblock is solid and square and the pages are very clean and bright. Foxing to the reverse of the half-title page only. Lovely bookplate to the front pastedown endpaper with offsetting to the front free endpaper. Short old ink inscription dated 1898 to the front free endpaper. No other writing or marking.