Item #105552 Little Joe; a Tale of the Pacific Railway. James BONWICK.
Little Joe; a Tale of the Pacific Railway
Little Joe; a Tale of the Pacific Railway

Little Joe; a Tale of the Pacific Railway

London, William Tweedie, [1872].

Duodecimo, [ii] (title leaf), 96 pages plus a frontispiece.

Original dark green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, extensively decorated in black and gilt on the front cover, and in blind at the rear; later inexpertly recased with new endpapers (but retaining the original flyleaves); minor blemishes to the first two sections due to the recasing (including sewing imperfections to the gutters); scattered light foxing and a few mild signs of use and age; a decent copy with a gift inscription from the Brighton & Sussex Band of Hope Union in 1879.

Provenance: Edward Edgar Pescott (1872-1954), horticulturalist, naturalist, author and book-collector, with his surname signature in pencil on the title page. In his Bonwick bibliography, published in 1939, Pescott records this item as number 50 ('Little Joe. London, 1862') and marks it as unseen. Clearly he found a copy before he died (in 1954), but very few others have - this is a rarity of the highest calibre. Ferguson 7225 (errors with the date and title, not noting the frontispiece); Pescott 50 (unseen, misdated, incomplete); Muir 774; Featherstone, pages 65-6 (correcting Ferguson).

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