THE LONG PATROL: A Tale Of The Mounted Police By H.A. Cody (New York: Hodder& Stoughton, [1912]) Binding

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The Long Patrol: A Tale of the Mounted Police by H. A. Cody

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THE LONG PATROL: A Tale of the Mounted Police by H.A. Cody (New York: Hodder& Stoughton, [1912]) Binding designed by Frank Hazenplug.

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' Marley's Ghost by Harry Furniss, for' A Christmas Carol, 1910

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Irish Wonders by D. R. McAnally

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IRISH WONDERS: Popular Tales as Told by the People by D.R. McAnally (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1888) Illustrated by H.R. Heaton.

The ghosts, giants, pookas, demons, leprechawns, banshees, fairies, witches, widows, old maids, and other marvels of the Emerald Isle.

source [1977 edition]

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A Bundle of Ballads by Henry Morley

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BUNDLE OF BALLADS by Henry Morley (1891). Embroidered in silk thread and gold with a scrolling tree inhabited by a pair of cats above a pair of monkeys who are teasing a pair of dogs below with a bone on a string .

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Old French Romances, Done into English by William Morris

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THE TALE OF KING FLORUS AND FAIR JEHANE thought to be embroidered by May Morris, daughter of William Morris — Source © The University of Manchester Library

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Fashionable in the 16th and 17th century, the art of embroidering unique covers for books saw a comeback in late 19th-century England, from the middle-class drawing room to the Arts and Crafts movement.