Victorian Decorative Binding London History Illustrated Estes 1887 Antique Book

Young Folks’ History of London; William H. Rideing; Boston: Estes & Lauriat; 1887. Young Folks’ History of London; William H. Rideing; Boston: Estes & Lauriat; 1887; Early Edition. Striking Victorian decorative binding with elaborate black stamping and gilt lettering enclosing nearly 500 pages of illustrated London history.

Birds and Blossoms Fidelia Bridges 1887 Gilt Victorian Gift Book Antique Beauty

Birds and Blossoms: And What the Poets Sing of Them, illustrated by Fidelia Bridges and edited by Susie Barstow Skelding (Frederick A. Stokes, New York, 1887). A striking Victorian gift book featuring tissue-guarded full-color plates of birds among their native blossoms — owls, cedar-birds, sandpipers, catbirds — paired with poetry from era luminaries including selections gathered with the personal courtesy of contributors like Mary Mapes Dodge and Celia Thaxter.