Front Cover of the [1882] Ward, Lock, and Co. "Lily Series, Complete Edition" Reprint

“Front Cover of the [1882] Ward, Lock, and Co. "Lily Series, Complete Edition" Reprint,” Wide, Wide World Digital Edition, accessed December 21, 2024, https://widewideworlddigitaledition.siue.edu/items/show/72.

Ward, Lock, and Co. used this red, cloth-covered binding for an [1882] edition of The Wide, Wide World. The title is placed in front of stamped white lilies. A stamped ribbon is wrapped around the base of the flowers denoting this book is part of "The Lily Series."  The cover also uses black ink stamping on top of the red cloth, forming a border and a background for the white lilies.

Front Cover

1882

Wetherell, Elizabeth [Susan Warner]. The Wide, Wide World. Reprint, Lily Series, London: Ward, Lock & Co. [1882].

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