[Fine Binding | Virginia Chester] The Biglow Papers E-List 33 offsetting to front endpaper

offsetting to front endpaper

Gilt-ruled turn-ins with fleurons at corners and lavender and purple marbled endpapers

loosely inserted

a few other spots of wear to rear cover

and a Booke

[Fine Binding | Virginia Chester] The Biglow Papers E-List 33 offsetting to front endpaperLowell, 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