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Vintage The Messenger Bird Red Leather HC Gilt Edges Inscribed 1860s Gift Book
Condition: Acceptable | Estate sale find. Red leather boards heavily rubbed, edge wear, chipped spine ends. Hinges cracked but binding holds. Foxed endpapers with owner inscriptions; one front leaf torn with loss. Sold as is
Brand/Publisher: Unknown
Title: The Messenger Bird
Author: Not stated
Format: Antique gilt-edged leather gift book
Binding: Red leather hardcover with elaborate blind-stamped scrollwork and central gilt cartouche reading \"The Messenger Bird\"
Language: English
Topic: Not specified
Subject: Decorative 19th-century literary gift volume
Interior: Text pages (not fully shown) with a front blank bearing a mounted black-and-white portrait photograph and a handwritten presentation inscription to Miss Louise Field from her father dated 1868; additional ownership inscriptions and dates including 1862 on a pink front endpaper
Publication details: Undated; publisher and place of publication not visible in the available images
Special attributes: Gilt page edges, ornate red leather gift binding, 19th-century presentation and ownership inscriptions, mounted photographic portrait
Keywords: Messenger Bird antique book, red leather gilt gift volume, 19th century inscribed presentation copy, small decorative Victorian gift book
