Mother Goose for Grown Folks.
Boston: Loring, Publisher, [1870]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Augustus Hoppin and Hammatt Billings. Small 8vo. Green ornately blind-embossed cloth with elaborate gilt lettering and rules. iv, 144pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece + engraved second title page, full-page plates. Very good. Quite mild edgewear; old but neat and discreet expert brown cloth tape hinge reinforcement on brown endpapers. Item #45624
Attractive reprint edition of this 1860 (New York: Rudd & Carleton) volume, here subtitled "A Christmas Reading" on the engraved title page and noted as "A New, Revised, and Enlarged Edition" on the regular title page. Adeline Dutton Train Whitney (1824-1906) wrote a handful of popular volumes, mainly poetry for girls.
Price: $45.00