Author: Harris, Joel Chandler
Title: Mr. Rabbit at Home
Publication Information: Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company. The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1896
Call #: PS1805 .M5 E96
Book Size: 21.2 cm (H); 15.7 cm (L); 2.5 cm (spine)
Cover: Beige cloth cover; embossed gold "Mr. Rabbit" across the front cover; across the top "At Home" on the door of the cottage embossed in brown; lion with a paw on the door knocker, door open, rabbit looking out and back (away from viewer); Joel Chandler Harris' full name embossed on cover in brown; green color for grass and trees in rear. Back cover plain, with circle medallion embossed in center, with a design that looks like J.C. H. Spine: title, full author's name, "with illustrations by Oliver Herford" and :Houghton Mifflin & C." all embossed in brown.
Inside Book Covers: green paper inside front and back covers
Paper Edges: green - top, side, and bottom
Illustrations: includes a list of illustrations (25 total, including frontispiece). The frontispiece is a sick lion in bed under the covers, with a rabbit (dressed), sitting in a chair bedside, looking up at the lion. Caption: "Brother lion watched me Page 158". Note artist signature in lower right corner. Paper between frontispiece and title page
Comments:
- Table of contents - 24 chapters (numbered with titles)
- title page: 'Mr. Rabbit at Home A Sequel to Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country by Joel Chandler Harris, Author of Uncle Remus, etc. Illustrated by Oliver Herford" (note Gothic type)
- Riverside Press Emblem on the title page - man playing pipes, by a river side, "tout bien ou rien"
- no ads in the back
- ad in the front: "Books by Joel Chandler Harris" - and gives size (12 mo, 16 mo, 8vo) and prices ( generally 1.50 1.25; paper 50 cents. Published by Houghton Mifflin)
- Late 19th-Century American Text Production
- Children's Literature
- Marketing of the Author
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