Author: Carleton, Will
Title: Farm Ballads
Publication Information: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, Franklin Square
Call #: PS 1257 .F3 1882
Book Size: 22.5 cm (H); 16 cm (L); 2 cm (spine)
Cover: Green (note pattern on cloth); bevelled edges; gilt edging design; center gold medallion of a man and woman walking in a field - there's a farm rear left, church and steeple rear right; note clothes and style; title in gilt at the top of the medallion; author's full name (in a different font) under the medallion; leaves and branches around top, left, and bottom of medallion; black embossed circle around medallion, and black edge; back cover blank; spine with title sideways in a different font (and gilt); geometric design before and after title on spine; design on edges of spine.
Inside Book Covers: plain brown paper
Paper Edges: all gilt - top, side, bottom
Illustrations: illustration opposite title page, two men, one with a quill pen, writing (note caption: "Draw up the papers, lawyer, and make 'em good and stout" page 17"). There's a page between the illustration and the title page. There's a list of Illustrations included. Style of illustrations does not seem to be consistent.
Comments:
- Note emblem on the title page (with a Greek motto, two hands, one with a pen, one without)
- Preface, signed "W.C."
- Preface to the Revised Edition 1882 signed "W.C."
- Contents - Farm ballads (with titles); Other Poems (with titles)
- Note design elements at the end of each poem
- Entered according to Act of Congress 1873 Copyright 1882 by Harper Brothers
- the font on the inside page looks like tree bark
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- 19th-Century American Text Production
- Ideology of Country
- Illustrations
