Description: The Amaranth; or, Token of Remembrance. A Christmas and New Year’s Gift for MDCCCXLIX, Published by Phillips & Sampson, Boston, 1849, 322 pp, full leather, 7.5 x 5”, 12mo. In fair condition. Moderate wear to extremities with rubbing to corners and edges. Spine ends are quite chipped and rubbed. Gilt finishing to boards remains bright but rubbed. Old hand ownership to front pastedown. Some damp staining to leaves with scattered moderate foxing and toning. Tissue guards intact. A bit of offsetting from plates. Binding intact. All edges gilt. Please see photos. Gift books, literary annuals, or keepsakes were 19th-century books, often lavishly decorated, which collected essays, short fiction, and poetry. They were primarily published in the autumn, in time for the holiday season and were intended to be given away rather than read by the purchaser. They were often printed with the date of the coming new year, but copyrighted with the actual year of publication. Gift books first appeared in England in the 1820s. They were modeled after the long-established literary almanacs published in France and Germany. COLI1849ADFN
Price: 150 USD
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
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Binding: Leather
Place of Publication: Boston
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
Publisher: Phillips & Sampson
Topic: Poetry
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1849
Original/Facsimile: Original
