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68 volumes. Variously illustrated, all featuring some use of chromolithography; plus lithographs, woodcuts, and some portraits from photographs. Variously sized and bound in cloth, leather, and tortoise shell boards. A large assortment of mid-19th-century gift books, annuals, and poetry books, most charmingly illustrated with chromolithographed presentation pages or title pages, many with additional color plates. Numerous bookplates, ink stamps, and ownership marks of various owners throughout. 68 volumes, some repeating titles from annuals and variant bindings, includes: Friendship's Gift. New York: Leavitt & Allen, n.d. 2 copies. The Rainbow. Albany: A.L. Harrison, 1848. Percival, Emily, editor. The Amaranth:... New York: Leavitt & Allen, n.d. (Spine strip in pieces, one third laid in loose) The Gem Annual:... New York: Leavitt & Allen, n.d. The Chaplet of Literary Gems,... No place: Claremont Manufacturing Company, n.d. Herbert, Henry, editor. W. The Aloe,... New York: Lamport, Blakeman & Law, 1854. The Evergreen. New York: Leavitt & Allen, n.d. Percival, Emily, editor. The Garland;... Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1851. Moore, F.A., editor. Gems for You:... Manchester, N.H.: William H. Fisk, 1851. Goodrich, S.G., editor. The Token,... Hartford: S. Andrus and Son, [c. 1850]. Arthur, T.S., editor. Friendship's Token. New York: Leavitt & Allen, [c. 1855]. The Gem Annual:... New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1859. Percival, Emily, editor. The Garland;... Boston: John Philbrick, 1848. Percival, Emily, editor. The Garland;... Boston: David P. King, 1849. The Violet:... New York: Leavitt and Allen, 1856. The Violet. (Illustrated title but no printed title page, c. 1869) Fellows, Edward B., editor. The Excelsior Annual,... New York: Nafis & Cornish, 1849. The Keepsake:... New York: John C. Riker, [c. 1873]. The Token of Friendship:... Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1861. The Illuminated Tablet. (Blank memory book, no publisher information). Hall, S.C., editor. The Book of Gems. London: George Bell and Sons, 1877. The Rosemary,... Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1849. The Moss Rose. New York: Leavitt & Allen, [c. 1855]. The Casket. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1854. Arnold, Clara, editor. The Magnolia;... Boston: Philips, Sampson, and Company, n.d. The Token of Friendship:... Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852. The Casket:... Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Company, n.d. Sinclair, Eugene, editor. The Book of Gems;... Manchester, N.H.: William H. Fisk, 1854. The Casket:... New York: Leavitt & Allen, [c. 1849]. Percival, Emily, editor. The Garland;... Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1855. Tappan, William B. Sacred and Miscellaneous Poems. Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey, 1847. The Snow-Flake:... Philadelphia: E.H. Butler & Co., 1849. Phillips, Alfred A., editor. The Forget-Me-Not:... New York: Nafis & Cornish, 1846. 2 copies. Goodrich, S.G., editor. The Token,... Hartford: S. Andrus and Son, [c. 1848]. Percival, Emily, editor. The Garland;... Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1854. (Ink ownership signature dated 1853) Hart, John S., editor. The Iris:... Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1851. 2 copies. Hart, John S., editor. The Iris:... Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1853. Munroe, G.S., editor. The Keepsake of Friendship. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co., 1853. Smith, E. Oakes, editor. The Salamander:... Second Edition. New York: George P. Putnam, 1849. Hart, John S., editor. The Iris:... Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852. Munroe, G.S., editor. The Keepsake of Friendship. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1854. Munroe, G.S., editor. The Keepsake of Friendship. Worcester: E.N. Tucker, 1850. Munroe, G.S., editor. The Keepsake of Friendship. Worcester: E.N. Tucker, 1851. Percival, Emily, editor. The Golden Gift:... Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1850. 2 copies. Percival, Emily, editor. Gems of Beauty;... Boston: Phillips