Lucile.

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Creator

Owen Meredith.

Title

Lucile.

Coverage

Boston:

Publisher

Ticknor and Fields,

Date

1860.

Subject

Gift of Peter S. Graham.

Description

In addition to their sober, brown cloth-covered bindings, Ticknor and Fields found great success with their small, pocket-sized “Blue and Gold” books uniformly bound in gold- and blind-stamped blue cloth. The series proved to be extremely popular; it was frequently imitated by other American publishers. This book, however, is not just an example of a series binding—it is also one of RBS’s several hundred copies of the 19th -century verse novel Lucile. From 1860 to 1938, nearly a hundred American publishers brought out at least 2,000 editions and issues of Lucile.

Source

From the collection of Rare Book School