OLD MERRY'S ANNUAL. 1870. Contains Merry and Wise edited by Old Merry, 1869.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1869.
8vo. viii, 664p. Illustrated, including color frontispiece, many woodcut text drawings and full-page plates. Contains stories by various authors. Bound in the publisher's original green cloth over beveled boards, the spine and upper cover embossed and densely decorated in a series of decorative frames and central panel with title on gilt background, lower cover repeating the upper in blind, a.e.g., brown endpapers. Very slight wear, but an exceptionally bright copy - rare thus. Item #24514
Contains the first appearance of Louisa May Alcott's story "Madam Cluck and Her Family" later collected in Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag.
Price: $375.00








