The Ticket: A Starlight Story, Illustrated (First Edition, 1878, D. Lothrop & Co.)

Language: English

Published by D. Lothrop & Co., 1878

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1878 antique Boston juvenile in the Starlight Stories series, w/ rear publisher advertisements for Wide Awake & Babyland & the "Patent Applied For" binding notation to the lower rear border. Good. Unmarked. First Edition. 1878. D. Lothrop & Co., Boston, Massachusetts. Hardcover: blue paper-covered boards w/ multi-color pictorial front in red, black, gold & white, red & gold title banner; edge rubbing, corner bumping, surface scuffing. Blue cloth spine w/ softening to head & heel, rubbing to the extremities. Plain endpapers, moderate foxing & edge spotting to the front flyleaf. Wood-engraved frontispiece depicting a country church w/ steeple, b&w wood-engraved illustrations & in-text decorative vignettes throughout. Interior pages w/ moderate scattered foxing & spotting, text legible throughout. Unpaginated. 4.25x6.25" (12mo). Ships in a box, quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: The Ticket is a Boston juvenile reward volume published circa 1878 by D. Lothrop & Co. in the Starlight Stories series, written under the name Mrs. L. M. Childs. The moral narrative follows a young boy's change of heart after receiving a Scripture ticket at Sunday school, and the volume pairs that prose w/ natural history verse including The Autumn Bird. The lead story, The Sabbath School Ticket, sets the boy's conscience and reform against a severe winter. Wood-engraved illustrations, decorative initial letters and pastoral tailpiece vignettes run through the text. A wood-engraved frontispiece depicts a country church w/ its steeple and graveyard path. The rear cover advertises Daniel Lothrop's juvenile periodicals Wide Awake, launched in 1875 at $2.00 a year, and Babyland, launched in late 1877 at $0.50 a year under editor Ella Farman Pratt. The lower rear border carries the notation PATENT APPLIED FOR, matching Lothrop's 1877-1878 binding design patent for the pictorial pocket series. Lothrop produced these small moral volumes as seasonal reward runs. Lydia Maria Child's work in early American children's literature began w/ the periodical The Juvenile Miscellany. Child was an American author, abolitionist and journalist whose moral stories were carried by denominational and educational publishers of the period. …

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Title
The Ticket: A Starlight Story, Illustrated (First Edition, 1878, D. Lothrop & Co.)
Author
Mrs. L. M. Childs; Lydia Maria Child
Publisher
D. Lothrop & Co.
Publication year
1878
Condition
Good
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
Edition
First Edition.
Item weight
29 ounces
Dimensions
4.25 x 6.25 in
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