Mrs Dora E W Spratt (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, 61 pages, decorative white cloth, silvered titles and top edge. A hardcovered booklet of advice, prayers, quotes, and instruction, including the actual certificate of for the marriage of William Robert Burnside, and Margaret Janet Moore, signed in 1896 by the bride, the groom, the witnesses and a Baptist minister. Includes several pages of signatures from wedding guests. A good specimen with moderate shelf wear, light exterior foxing, front hinge cracked but secure, light scattered foxing throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. This book was designed for use at a wedding and that is what occurred here. Basically a wedding certificate filled with poetry and quotes, etc. Near the front the certification is filled in with the bride and groom names, witnesses at the bottom, date and place of the wedding. Portland, Oregon, 1907. At the rear is filled in 3 1/2 pages of wedding guests. Nice clean book with just minor useage.

White Cloth Gilt. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Thus. The page with the marriage details is filled out for a couple that wed in 1904. Two pages with names of Guests also filled out. The fragile jacket has little chips and two larger chips at spine ends. Size: 8vo.

Philadelphia: The Griffith & Rowland Press, (1893) 1902. [1]4, [1 (certificate), 561, [3 (blank)]pp. 7½ x 5½ inches. Publisher's cloth with gilt titling and decoration on upper cover; all edges gilt. Certificate and four partly printed leaves completed in manuscript. Near fine in a very good dustwrapper. Arranged and anthologized by a married woman, this collection of love and marriage features both poetry and prose. The anthology features works by women poets and authors such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Jean Ingelow, Mrs. Sigourney, Dinah Mulock Craik, Louisa C. Tuthill, Mrs. Mary Howitt, and the Countess of Gifford. Bound in white cloth, Married Life was designed as a partly blank book to be completed as a wedding souvenir. An engraved wedding certificate-like leaf records the 1912 marriage of a couple in Philadelphia, a handwritten list records their wedding guests. A well-preserved artifact and an fairly early American dust jacket.