Provenance: | Former owner's signature: Elizabeth Hoar. Title page illustration hand colored by former owner. Binding: original printed wrappers; has wood engraving of a tree on p. [1] of wrapper, wrapper imprint statment, "Boston: Printed and sold by Lincoln & Edmands, No. 53 Cornhill, 1822," and "Lincoln & Edmands have just published the fifth edition of Adams' Geography" on p. [4] of wrapper.
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Notes: | Wrapper title: The orphan boy, and The caskets. Last page blank; pasted to printed wrapper. Signatures: A-C⁶ Variant bindings noted; one state has a wood engraving of flowers on p. [1] of wrapper, wrapper imprint statement, "Printed and published at no. 53 Cornhill, by Lincoln & Edmands, who have for sale at their Bible Warehouse, religious books, and cheap tracts, wholesale and retail prices.," and "Lincoln & Edmands publish the following valuable school books" (catalogue), p. [4] of wrapper; another state has a wood engraving of a scene with a "C" on p. [1] of wrapper, wrapper imprint statement, "Printed & sold by Lincoln & Edmands, at their Bible Warehouse & Theological & Miscellaneous Bookstore, 53 Cornhill.," and "Books, suitable for presents in Sunday schools, sold by Lincoln & Edmands, no. 53 Cornhill" (catalogue)--on p. [4] of wrapper. Frontispiece engraved by Nathaniel Dearborn. "The caskets; or, The palace and the church. By the author of 'The raven and the dove, ' 'The two lambs, ' &c."--Page [21]-34. By Lucy Lyttelton Cameron. "The Lord's-day morning. From Winchell's Supplement to Watt's Hymns."--Page 34. "A morning hymn. From Winchell's selection."--Page [4]. Shoemaker 10266
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