[Fine Binding | Virginia Chester] The Biglow Papers E-List 17 one being the frontispiece

one being the frontispiece

Red cloth with black lettering to front cover and spine

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Verso of final leaf: "Transcribed in the year 1898 in the Island of Jersey"

Boston: Samuel E

[Fine Binding | Virginia Chester] The Biglow Papers E-List 17 one being the frontispieceLowell, James Russell. The Biglow Papers. With Additional Notes, an Enlarged Glossary, and an Illustration by George Cruikshank London, John Camden Hotten, 1859. Bound in red brown crushed morocco by Virginia Chester with a blind tooled pattern of leaves, dashes, and triangles to front and rear covers. Five bands to spine, with title to second compartment and author to fifth compartment. Wide turn ins with marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Bookplate