GIPSY (GYPSY) FORTUNE-TELLER - "Aunt Mary", 1st 1849 CHILDREN'S DIVINATION STORY SCIENCE / MEDICINE along with a vignette of
Baker’s notes & crumb story
Description
along with a vignette of the tale
Translated from the French to English by Scottish doctor Anthony Todd Thomson
City: Secaucus
bookplate of Catholic priest and book collector to inside front board (ca
GIPSY (GYPSY) FORTUNE-TELLER - "Aunt Mary", 1st 1849 CHILDREN'S DIVINATION STORY SCIENCE / MEDICINE along with a vignette ofTHE GIPSY (GYPSY) FORTUNE TELLER Book Details + Condition: Lindsay and Blakiston (Philadelphia). First Edition, 1849. Small hardcover measuring 6" x 5". Illustrated with vibrant hand colored frontispiece showing the gypsy fortuneteller performing a palmistry reading on children. 64 pages. A supernatural divination children's story by a well known Victorian children's author from the mid 19th century, "Aunt Mary" or Mary Hughes. Firm binding; rubbed