[Copeland & Day | Hand Colored] Arabella & Araminta Stories E-List 30 Numbers 1-12 bound together

Numbers 1-12 bound together

remaining compartments with gilt ornament made up of small fleuron tools

flat spine also with triple gilt fillet borders and gilt title and author

Rubbing to edges with darkening to gilt

The binding has been secured with a leather cord at the spine

[Copeland & Day | Hand Colored] Arabella & Araminta Stories E-List 30 Numbers 1-12 bound togetherSmith, Gertrude. The Arabella and Araminta Stories. Boston: Copeland & Day, 1898. Introduction by Mary E. Wilkins. With fifteen black & white illustrations by Ethel Reed & striking pictorial endpapers printed in orange with repeating ARABELLA PICKED A POPPY border, also by Reed. All of the full page illustrations have been neatly hand colored in watercolor, with the colors applied in harmony with Reed's significant use of negative space. Original tan