Author: Cable, George W.
Title: "Posson Jone" and Pere Raphael with a New Word Setting Forth How and Why the Two Tales are One
Publication Information: New York; Charles Scribner's Sons 1909
Call #: PS 1244 .P6
Book Size: 18.5 cm (H); 13.5 cm (L); 3 cm (spine)
Cover: Blue cloth; front cover - design with two vases with flowers arching upward, candles in design reaching over to the center. Title, author's name, and the word "illustrated" embossed in gold on the cover; (author's name in a rectangle that functions as a pedestal for the vases); vases and most of the design embossed in gold; parts embossed in green and beige. Back cover plain blue; spine - title, author full name, and "Scribner's" all embossed in gold; cognate floral design with basket embossed gold.
Inside Book Covers: plain beige paper
Paper Edges: top gilt; side and bottom unadorned
Illustrations: color graphic on title page - looks like a church and palm trees. Includes a list of illustrations (nine in all, all color on glossy paper
Comments:
- introduction signed G.W. Cable Northampton, Mass July 1909
- no ads
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- Early 20th-Century American Text Production
- Illustration
