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Philadelphia: Charles H. Banes, 1902 The page with the marriage details is filled out for a couple that wed in 1904. Two pages with names of Guests also filled out. The fragile jacket has little chips and two larger chips at spine ends. Size: 8vo. First Thus.. White Cloth Gilt. Very Good Plus/Fair.

1893 Charles H. Banes. 7½ x 5½ hardcover. Publisher's white cloth with gilt titling and decoration on upper cover; all edges gilt; NO dust jacket. A hard covered booklet of advice, prayers, quotes, and instruction, including the actual certificate signed by the bride and the groom. All other pages clean and unmarked. A good specimen with moderate shelf wear, exterior soiling and stains, hinges cracked but secure, light age toning to the endpapers.

Philadelphia: The Griffith & Rowland Press, (1893) 1902. [1]-4, [1 (certificate), 5-61, [3 (blank)]pp. 7½ x 5½ inches. Publisher's white cloth with gilt titling and decoration on upper cover; all edges gilt; publisher's illustrated dust jacket. Certificate and four partly printed leaves completed in manuscript. Very good dust jacket with some mottling, brief wear, and short closed tears; binding very good to near fine. Poetical and prose anthology of love, marriage and the married life, arranged and anthologized by a married woman. The slim volume, bound in nuptial white cloth, was published as a partly blank book, intended to be completed in manuscript as a wedding souvenir. An engraved wedding certificate-like leaf bound into the book here records the marriage of a couple who wed in Philadelphia in 1912. At the end of the volume is a handwritten list of names of the wedding guests. Women poets and authors represented within include Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Jean Ingelow, Mrs. Sigourney, Dinah… Read More