A DICKENS BIRTHDAY BOOK; With Colored Illustrations
New York: Graham & Matlack, 1914. Not named. Partial Reprint of A Rosy Path: A Dickens Birthday Book, Boston: DeWolfe, & Fiske Co., 1904. Pictorial cloth. 16mo (6 1/4" x 4 7/8"), mottled off-white cloth with glossy medalion with gilt-framed colored & embossed portrait of Charles Dickens on front cover, illustrated with chromolithographic frontispiece and 9 comparable colored plates, [72] pages. Very Good + / Box: Good Plus. Item #6253
The book is pristine: tight, bright, without ANY notes or marks. Paper stock is heavy, tinted, and decorated with scrollery & open space entries for dates during each month of the year...often with nearby quotations or lovely colored chromolitho plates (roughly one/month).
The book is "Like New" and appears NEVER TO HAVE BEEN USED. Though the book remains clean, bright, and "tight," its binding is beginning to "start" or separate in the month of April...though still holding.
All colored lithographs--aka "chromolithographs"--are bright and clean as the day they were created/reprinted. The illustrator is not named.
Raphael Tuck & Sons published "A Dickens Birthday Book" of possibly earlier vintage than the 1904 color-illustrated version by DeWolfe, & Fiske Co. in Boston (1904), entitled: A Rosy Path: A Dickens Birthday Book with 12 colored illustrations in 1904. Several of the latter's chromolithographs are reproduced in our Graham & Matlack 1914 reprint edition, which we have Not located in Gimbel.
The original box has a top cover with blueish marbelization. It is very clean but has separations of the top three corners (possibly reglueable) of the upper lid. White paper label on front edge of upper lid states "No-1. A Dickens Birthday Book"
Price: $70.00