Mrs. Hughes
Frank Worthy, or The Orphan and His Benefactor; for Little Boys and Little Girls, 1849
Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston
935
32mo. 72pp. Hand-colored engraving as frontispiece. Certainly a capitalization on the narrative arc of Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, which had first been editioned in the United States by another Philadelphia...
32mo. 72pp. Hand-colored engraving as frontispiece. Certainly a capitalization on the narrative arc of Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, which had first been editioned in the United States by another Philadelphia publisher. Bound in embossed red paper cover boards with gilt titling. Moderately soiled, corners bumped and somewhat rubbed, else very good. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown, gift inscription to front flyleaf.
