THE CHILD'S GEM FOR 1845
1845WRCLIT82289Boston: T.H. Carter and Company 1845. viii951pp. 12mo 12 x 10 cm. Gilt cloth a.e.g spine gilt extra. Colored frontis. Decorations and plates. Some mild spotting to upper cover minor foxing spot of browning in upper margin of title; 19th century bookplate on pastedown and pencil gift inscriptions otherwise a very good copy. First edition of this annual assembled by Mrs. Colman and published with her husband under their subsidiary Boston imprint. Mrs. Colman an active Swedenborgian has come under recent academic scrutiny due to her early republishing of verse and adapted artworks by William Blake in her annuals and periodicals: "The Little Boy Lost" and "The Little Boy Found" in the case of this work. Oddly uncommon -- OCLC locates only 7 copies. BENTLEY & NURMI 223. Deck Raymond H. Jr: "An American Original ." BLAKE AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY XI:1 Summer 1977 pp. 4-18. OCLC: 40971715. T.H. Carter and Company hardcover books
