Home and School Reciter and Entertainer, containing the Choicest Recitations and Readings from the Best Authors for Sunday Schools, Church and Home Entertainments, Social Gatherings, Lyceums, Christmas Festivals, Etc. Including Recitals in Prose and Verse, Selections with Musical Accompaniments, Dialogues, Addresses and Declamations, Etc., Etc.
No place listed: No publisher listed, 1904. Cloth. 8vo; 248pp; blue cloth over board, title stamped in white, decorative patriotic-style shield to front in red and white, b&w photographic illustration onlay; gift inscription in pencil dated 1911 to ffep; 2 color illustrated plates including fp; 8 b&w and 8 lavender photographic illustrated plates printed recto and verso; bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown (San Francisco and Sacramento); shelf scuffing of boards, sunning of spine, offsetting of acidic paper to two pages, lightly shaken; good plus. WorldCat shows 2 holdings. Good +. Item #932
Recitations and speeches for juveniles, along with photographic illustrations of children in costumes. Very typical of late Victorian and Edwardian entertainment.
Price: $45.00