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A charming Civil War-era juvenile in its original publisher\'s green cloth with richly gilt-decorated spine and gilt cover vignette. One of the early volumes in the popularLittle Pet Booksseries by Aunt Fanny (Frances Elizabeth Barrow), featuring the adventures of the dogs Mop and Frisk.
Illustrated with attractive wood engravings, including full-page illustrations and whimsical animal scenes.
Condition:Good antique copy with sound binding. Please see the separate Condition Description for complete details.
A desirable first edition for collectors of decorative bindings, nineteenth-century children\'s books, Aunt Fanny, and Victorian juvenile literature.
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Aunt Fanny
New York: W. H. Kelley & Brother, 1863.
First Edition.
An original 1863 first edition ofThe Third Little Pet Book, containingMop and Frisk, by Aunt Fanny (Frances Elizabeth Barrow), one of America\'s best-known nineteenth-century authors of children\'s literature.
Bound in the publisher\'s original dark green cloth with elaborate gilt-decorated spine and gilt cover vignette depicting two children. The decorative spine remains especially attractive and displays well on the shelf.
The volume contains 182 pages with numerous wood-engraved illustrations throughout, including charming scenes of children and dogs as well as several humorous anthropomorphic animal illustrations characteristic of mid-nineteenth-century juvenile publishing.
Published during the Civil War, this compact volume was intended for young readers yet survives today as an appealing example of early American illustrated children\'s literature and decorative Victorian book design.
Condition:Good antique copy with sound binding. Full condition details appear in the separate Condition Description.
An attractive first edition for collectors of Aunt Fanny, nineteenth-century juvenile literature, decorative cloth bindings, Victorian children\'s books, and Civil War-era Americana.
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