Full Cover of the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons Reprint, Version 2

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Citation

“Full Cover of the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons Reprint, Version 2,” Wide, Wide World Digital Edition, accessed March 19, 2024, https://widewideworlddigitaledition.siue.edu/items/show/2706.

Description

This 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint is covered with a blue wave grain cloth (labeled Wav7 by the Library Company of Philadelphia). The front and back covers have ornate, stamped borders. The front cover has a gilt-stamped image of a boy in Huck Finn-style clothing, prototypically American, fishing, with a house in the background. The title and author's name are gilt-stamped in Birch font. The spine The title and author's name are repeated on the spine, and it has a gilt-stamped image of Alice and Ellen carrying supplies up the mountain. An arabesque border appears at the top and bottom of the spine.

Subjects

Full Cover

Date

1852

Source

Wetherell, Elizabeth [Susan Warner]. The Wide, Wide World. Reprint, London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1852.

Publisher

The Wide, Wide World Digital Edition
Nelson

Coverage

Paternoster, London; and Edinburgh

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IsPartOf 48CIA

Identifier

48CIA_1