Doctor Birch and His Young Friends

NY: D. Appleton & Co, 1857. Early US Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Stated third thousand on the title page. Publisher's brown blind stamped cloth with illustrated vignette and titles stamped in gilt on front, title to spine. Double title pages, illustrated w/ 14 plates throughout text + engravings to title pages. Loss to cloth at spine, edges moderately worn. Thackeray's third Christmas book. From the library of noted biblophiles Sherman P and Anne Lyon Haight with their bookplates pastedown. A vintage, unsophisticated copy in a publisher's decorated binding typical of the period.