Full Cover of the 1853 G. Routledge and Co. Reprint
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Citation
Leighton Son & Hodge, “Full Cover of the 1853 G. Routledge and Co. Reprint,” Wide, Wide World Digital Edition, accessed November 17, 2024, https://widewideworlddigitaledition.siue.edu/items/show/2699.
Description
This is the full cover of the 1853 G. Routledge and Co. Reprint. The front and back covers are green, and the spine is gold. Both covers have a border and leaves in each corner. The front cover features a gold globe with roses and thorns growing from it. The Wide, Wide World is written around the globe. On the spine, The Wide, Wide World is written in gold above Elizabeth Wetherell. The author's name is followed by a decoration of a lilly, with a hand holding the stem. There is the inscription: BEAR A LILY IN THY HANDS GATES OF BRASS CANNOT WITHSTAND ONE TOUCH OF THAT MAJIC WAND—LONGFELLOW. The entire spine is outlined with a gold border.
Subjects
Full Cover
Date
1853
Source
Wetherell, Elizabeth [Susan Warner]. The Wide, Wide World. Reprint, Illustrated by William Harvey. London: George Routledge & Co., 1853.
Creator
Leighton Son & Hodge
Contributor
Publisher
The Wide, Wide World Digital Edition
Routledge
Routledge
Coverage
Farringdon St., London, UK
Rights
The Wide, Wide World Digital Edition by Jessica DeSpain, Jennifer Brady, Melissa White, and Jill Anderson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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IsPartOf 47CIA
Identifier
47CIA_1