Lot 88 — CASKET, Harvey; YOUNG LADIES' CHOICE, Abell, 1859, cloth, elegant literature, moral instruction
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Horace Harvey, The Casket; or, Treasury of Elegant Literature, Thomas Holmes, London, [n.d.]; Mrs. L. G. Abell, The Young Ladies' Choice; or, Gems by the Way-Side. An Offering of Purity and Truth, Higgins, Bradley & Dayton, Boston, 1859.
The red volume's spine is detached and heavily damaged, with the front hinge splitting. The black volume's cloth binding is rubbed and worn. Inscriptions present in both volumes provide provenance.