CARLO FRANCONI, THE LITTLE ITALIAN BOY AND OTHER STORIES FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT AND INSTRUCTION OF YOUNG PEOPLE

by anonymous

$100 · Offered by Johnnycake Books

First edition

Philadelphia: C. G. Henderson, 1853. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Presumed first or certainly early edition, 1853 on title page, 1852 on copyright, in publishers tight weave brown cloth with a gilt-pressed image of an impoverished young boy and girl and a monkey front with blind-ruled and stamped border. unobtrusively rebacked with nearly all original spine with gilt laid back down, original polished yellow endpapers, short 8vo,

• Binding: Hardcover

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