1880s
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The Legacy of Cain byCall Number: ASL 823.8 C697Publication Date: 18--Publishers cloth binding, calico pattern ochre-colored, stamped in black with double borders, dots and dentil. Motifs on top cover design include a winged book, torch, foliage, and ribbon, with "I liber at que doce"; spine is stamped in gold and black with title, edition, and similar motifs.
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The Complete Home: An Encyclopaedia of Domestic Life and Affairs byCall Number: ASL 640 W933Publication Date: 1881Original mustard-colored Victorian embossed cloth binding. Front cover stamped in black and gold with title, stylized ginkgo and honeysuckle branches. Back cover blind-stamped with same design. Two sample spine-bindings pasted on inside front cover (ornate mustard-yellow vs. plain blue binding). Plates include a decorated gift page, a lithographic frontispiece, and color chomolithograph plates complete with tissue guards.
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Cram's Unrivaled Family Atlas of the World byCall Number: BOOK COLL 24 C-119Publication Date: 1883
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Poems and Ballads; A Century of Roundels and Other Poems byCall Number: ASL 821.8 Sw63Publication Date: 1887?Bound in blue rib-grained cloth; front cover with black-stamped ruled and decorative clover leaf and flower borders, panels of flowers and foliage and central panels with gilt-stamped backgrounds and black-stamped outline of clover and flower and author's last name; rear cover without decoration; spine with black and gilt-stamped decoration and titling; buff endpapers with gray printed floral pattern; all edges gilt.
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The Toilers of the Sea byCall Number: ASL 843.7 H874trPublication Date: 1888Bound in dark blue cloth; front cover with green and gilt-stamped coral and fish design in the shape of a classic shield with titling in the center; spine with gilt-stamped titling and green with gilt-stamped outlined shells; top edges gilt.
