The Baby's Biography: Record of the Child-Life of Geraldine Richmond

by Baby Book, Jennie M. Richmond, Maternity

$1,650 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

Lacon, Illinois: 1893-1894. Handmade baby book on watercolor paper stitched at spine measuring 200 x 160mm and slipped into a folded sheet measuring 250 x 170mm. External wrap with a lovely original watercolor floral with the name Geraldine; tender, with splitting along foldline. Baby book comprised of 16 leaves of manuscript and original pen drawings to rectos only. Additional 4 pieces loosely inserted include: a handwritten card from Carrie Bartlett with The Baby

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