Shaken. Some loose pages, all pages present. Tissue guards in tact. Interior illustrations as well as glossy frontis. Head, tail, corners bumped and rubbed. Illustrated boards, one faded. Matched pair, one faded. Pages toned.

Henry T. Coates published books between 1895 and 1904, when he retired. Prior to 1895, the company had a different name, it became John C. Winston.

Grace Aguilar died in 1842. A Jewess, forced to be self-sufficient, she wrote extensively on women's rights, Jewish history and the melding of the two. These are two of her most often reprinted titles.