Drawings to illustrate Roberts Brothers 1880 edition of Louisa May Alcott's Little women, [1880].

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Drawings to illustrate Roberts Brothers 1880 edition of Louisa May Alcott's Little women, [1880].

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Sixty-three original drawings by Merrill (fifty-nine pen and ink, four pencil), plus three illustrations in proof. Some drawings have sketches in pencil on verso; some are annotated by Louisa May Alcott.

66 items ; 21 cm. or smaller.

Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888

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Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the for her novel Little Women (1868) and the sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Born in Germantown (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania, Louisa May Alcott was the daughter of transcendentalist and educator Amos Bronson Alcott and social worker Abby May. Like her famous literary counterpart, Jo March, she was the second of four daughters. The eldest, Anna Bronson (Al...

Merrill, Frank T., 1848-

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Artist and illustrator born at Boston, Mass., in 1848. Illustrated editions of works by L.M. Alcott, Twain, Hale, Longfellow, Reade, Shelley and Keats, Dumas, George Eliot, and others. The copyright 1880 edition of Louisa May Alcott's Little women for which these drawings were prepared was published by Roberts Brothers at Boston (see Ullom, Louisa May Alcott ... an annotated, selected bibliography, Washington: Library of Congress, 1969, no. 26, p. 19). From the description of Drawing...