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The library of wit and humor, prose and poetry : selected from the literature of all times and nations
Title:
The library of wit and humor, prose and poetry : selected from the literature of all times and nations
Author:
Spofford, Ainsworth Rand, 1825-1908, editor.
Physical Description:
5 volumes : frontispieces, plates, portraits ; 24 x 17 cm
General Note:
Vols. 1 and 5, 1894; v. 2, 1884; v. 3-4, 1885.

Rare Book Room copy of Vol. 4 a gift of Bulkley Southworth Griffin, Washington, D.C., 1967.
Language:
English
Local Note:
RBR, v. 4 : In navy blue cloth stamped with title and illustrations in black and gilt on front cover and spine, and blindstamped with front cover design on back cover. Front flyleaf bears ownership notes, "David Ogden Wotherspoon, 1884 ; David Sellar Wotherspoon, 1929." Engraved frontispiece includes portrait of Mark Twain ("S. L. Clemens"). All edges gilt.
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Format :
Book