Among the pond people / by Clara Dillingham Pierson … ; illustrated by F.C. Gordon.
Clara Dillingham Pierson
Category
Books
Date
1901
Materials
Place of origin
New York
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3256894
Summary
Bibliographic description
xi, [1], 210, [4] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Pressed leaf at p. 97. Pencil numbers on front pastedown: "1- net", "4X=" and "7/3". Provenance: Manuscript inscription on front pastedown (scraped away): "Huttleston Broughton / 1901[?]" [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown: 'Brentano's / Booksellers & Stationers, / Union Square / New York.'. Binding: Early twentieth-century full publisher's light green cloth; dark green, purple, white and gilt stamped illustration on upper board: frog on a lily pad with fish and a turtle below; purple lettering in gilt title panel on upper board; dark green, purple and gilt stamped flower on spine; gilt stamped title panel on spine; gilt top edge.
Makers and roles
Clara Dillingham Pierson, author Gordon, F. C, illustrator