Author: Charles Dudley Warner; illustrated by F.O.C. Darley
Title: My Summer in A Garden
Publication Information: Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company 1898 (note also: The Riverside Press, Cambridge)
Call #: PS3152 .M6 1898
Book Size: 17 cm (H); 13 cm (L); 2.5 cm (spine)
Cover: green rib grain cloth (and shows through gold embossing on front cover); front cover - straight edge; title, author and the word "illustrated" embossed on the cover; along with graphic in center, gilt, of a man sitting on an overturned cart watching a toad (which is parallel to inside illustration opposite title page); back cover has edging, no embossing illustration; spine has title, author last name and the word "illustrated" and Houghton Mifflin at the base of the spine; gilt embossed on spine different from embossing on cover
Inside Book Covers: plain
Paper Edges: unadorned
Illustrations: list of illustrations (12 in all), each with a caption/title; note title page illustration - a man with pipes by the riverside - and a scroll("Tout bien ou rien"); illustration opposite the title page - a man watching a toad. Caption: "If you know your toad, it is all right" Page 39. (And note: a transparent sheet been the illustration and the title page)
Comments:
- introductory letter by Henry Ward Beecher
- Doesn't seem to have a table of contents
- "By way of dedication" signed C.D. W., Nook Farm, Hartford, October 1870
- note designs at the beginning and end of chapters, and the first letter of each chapter
- entered by Act of Congress in 1879, but he copyright is 1898 by Warner
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- Late 19th-Century American Text Production
- Country Ideology
- Illustrations
