Author: Trowbridge, J.T.
Title: Phil and His Friends
Publication Information: Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers 10 Milk Street Next "Old South Meeting House"
Call #: PS3097 .P46 1883
Book Size: 17.7 cm (H); 12.7 cm (L); 2.8 cm (spine)
Cover: Red cloth cover, black and gold embossed. Font cover: "Phil and His Friends gold background with title in red; "Trowbridge" gold with red letters; overlapping designs black, floral, rectangles; circle around Trowbridge's name. Back cover blank. Spine: design parallel to front cover in terms of gold with red letters for title and Trowbridge, and black design elements.
Inside Book Covers: plain paper
Paper Edges: unadorned
Illustrations: opposite the title page: "that Sallie was in search of him he could not doubt" p. 42". There are some illustrations in the text. Not many.
Comments:
- Contents include chapter numbers and titles
- note that J.T. Trowbridge's books - titles and prices - are on a page before the title page of this text.
- Lee and Shepard Publishers, Boston. Some "Sets in Neat Boxes" ; Some "All handsomely illustrated"
- Back pages of Book: "Lee and Shepard's Dollar Juveniles" "Comprising the following New Books and New Editions in attractive English Cloth Binding and Illustrated. Any Volume sold separately $1.00 per volume."
- Note the titles, the series - and "Oliver Optic's Books" - sold in sets or separate volumes
- 19th-Century American Text Production
- Children's Literature
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