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A.L.O.E. [Tucker

THE SILVER CASKET, Or, the World and Its Wiles

Robert Carter and Brothers, 1864

67.50 €

Buddenbrooks Inc.

(Newburyport, United States of America)

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Year of publication
1864
Place of printing
New York
Author
A.L.O.E. [Tucker
Publishers
Robert Carter and Brothers
Languages
English

Description

First American Edition. With frontispiece and three other steel-cut plates. Small 8vo, publisher's textured green cloth, the spine ornately decorated and lettered in blind, the spine gilt lettered and decorated. 276, [12 ads] pp. A very bright and near fine copy, the green cloth bright with no fading and only a light touch of edge wear, the text surprisingly clean and fresh without any foxing, spotting or staining

Edizione: a popular collection of moral tales by "a lady of england". charlotte tucker's children's writings are imbued with her evangelical religious beliefs. most of her stories were allegories with a clear moral, but she leavened her didacticism with a degree of realism and naturalism. the proceeds from her writings she often devoted to missionary or charity work.
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