Friar Jerome's Beautiful Book. A.D. 1200
(Boston): (Houghton, Mifflin and Company), (1896).
Price: $275.00
Hardcover. Thin octavo. Figured morocco with silk ties. Bookplate front fly, spine ends and corners worn and rubbed, a good only, but presentable copy of this high point of arts and crafts book design.
Item #84965
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
birth name: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
born: 11/11/1836
died: 3/19/1907
Biography
Poet, short-story writer, and editor whose use of the surprise ending influenced the development of the short story in America. He drew upon his childhood experiences in New Hampshire in his popular classic The Story of a Bad Boy (1870). - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore