Title: Rollo on the Rhine (Rollo's Tour in Europe)

Author: Jacob Abbott

Publisher: Taggard and Thompson, Boston

Publication Date: 1863 (MDCCCLXIII) / Copyright 1855

Format: Hardcover (Issued Without Dust Jacket)

Inner Cover Boards: Plain paper endpapers with a historic Civil War-era 1864 presentation inscription

Subject: Antique Children's Books / 19th Century Travel & Geography / Civil War Era Provenance

ISBN: N/A (Pre-ISBN Era)

Weight: Approximately 9 oz

Up for sale is an original mid-19th-century children's geographical adventure volume, the 1863 printing of "Rollo on the Rhine" by Jacob Abbott, from the popular "Rollo's Tour in Europe" series. Published in Boston by Taggard and Thompson during the American Civil War, this book offered young Victorian readers an engaging narrative tour of Germany's historic Rhine river valley, its landmarks, and local culture. Stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry and printed in Cambridge by H.O. Houghton, the book includes a beautifully engraved frontispiece showing "Rolandseck and Drachenfels" alongside detailed in-text wood engravings depicting European travels. This is a remarkable specimen for collectors of antique juvenile literature, travel geography, or mid-1800s historical artifacts.

The book is bound in its original faded plum/reddish-brown textured bookcloth boards, highlighted by a blind-stamped frame border on both panels and classic gold-gilt typography across the spine.

BOOK SPECIFICATIONS:

- Title: Rollo on the Rhine

- Author: Jacob Abbott

- Publisher: Taggard and Thompson

- Publication Date: 1863

- Format: Hardcover

- Inner Cover Boards: Plain endpapers with historic Civil War presentation inscription

- Subject: Antique Children's Travel Literature / Jacob Abbott

- ISBN: N/A (Pre-ISBN)

- Weight: Approx. 9 oz

CONDITION REPORT:

Please review the high-resolution listing photos carefully to evaluate the book's precise physical condition before purchasing:

- Casing / Hardcover Cloth: In good antiquarian condition. The original plum-toned textured bookcloth panels remain flat. The spine cloth exhibits uniform sun-fading/browning and moderate surface rubbing, with visible cloth fraying and minor chipping at the spine ends and corner tips. The spine gold-gilt titles remain completely legible.

- Binding: Strong structural condition. The internal paper joints and hinges remain fully intact, tight, and completely secure. The text block is firm and solid, keeping the entire volume stable with no loose or detached reading pages.

- Interior Pages: The internal text sheets and wood engravings are clean, complete, and well-preserved. Pages show a natural, uniform antiquarian age-toning. The front blank flyleaf page features an exceptionally poignant, beautifully penned Civil War-era ink presentation inscription reading: "To Eddie From his sister Anna September 6th 1864." Completely free of modern highlighters, underlines, stamps, or torn pages.

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