Home Thoughts and Home Scenes

Home Thoughts & Home Scenes
Ingelow, Jean, et. al., and Arthur Boyd Houghton (illus.), HOME THOUGHTS AND HOME SCENES IN ORIGINAL POEMS ... AND PICTURES (London: Routledge Warne & Routledge, 1865).  First edition, 25 x 20cm [4to], in publisher's dark green sand-grain cloth w/elaborate gilt & embossed decorations & title to covers & spine, bevelled edges, a.e.g., lt. chocolate eps., [i-x], 1-35 (plates) + I-XXXV (text) +[70 blank versos] cardstock pp., w/35 wood engravings by the Dalziels after A.B. Houghton.  "Dalziel's Gift Book for 1865," printed at the Camden Press, London.  Binding Very Good (extremities moderately bumped & worn); contents Very Good (prelims & final leaf a bit foxed w/occas. lt. spotting elsewhere).  White 126 ("absolutely essential to any representative collection of the period") & 165, Dalziels 354, Reid 7 & 196 ("the book of 1865"), Ray 200, Wolff 7793, de Beaumont 127, Goldman 57 (see also pp.126 & 128).  (Inv. #622)  C$1,000





And, the 1st US Expanded Edition

Horn Book of Plenty
Alcott, Louisa Mae, Jean Ingelow, et. al., THE HORN OF PLENTY OF HOME POEMS AND HOME PICTURES (Boston, William F. Gill & Co., 1876 [1875]).  First expanded US edition of Home Thoughts and Home Scenes, 21 x 16.5cm (8vo), in publisher's saddle brown cloth w/elaborate gilt & black decorations & title to fr. cover & spine, bevelled edges, a.e.g., tissue-guarded frontis engraving, 192 pp. w/35 full-page wood engravings by the Dalziels after Arthur Boyd Houghton, numerous wood engravings by F. Jeungling etc. after other artists, & Preface by Sophie May.  Binding Fine; contents Very Good (occas. foxing).  See Goldman 57.  (Inv. #549)  C$150



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