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Home Book Co.
New York, 1892-?

Frank F. Lovell set up this company in partnership with his brother Charles at [Lovell Co., i.e., J.W. Lovell's conglomerate United States Book Co. formed in 1891-1892] Worth Street address in 1892. (Tebbel II:350).

Known copies:

45 Vesey Street, nd. 97x148p, 379p. "Exmoor Edition" on top board (as banner below silhouette). Light green cloth stamped silver with silhouette of head in laurel crown, enclosed in a circle, thorny rose above and below (repeated in smaller form on spine). Plain endsheets. Running head in a gothic face. Poor quality paper. BAP HB1.

45 Vesey Street, nd. 90x145mm, 379p. Running head is "Lucile" in a gothic face. Tan linen finish cloth, plain endsheets. "LUCILE" in an ornately developed rectangle at top of board. "Exmoor Edition" is stamped in lower right corner. University of Iowa: NL 0594637.

1890?, On Cover: Exmoor Edition: NL 0594637 NYPL, rebound.

45 Vesey Street, nd. 95x150mm, 379p. "Dresden Edition" on top board. Running head is "Lucile" in a gothic face. Rose cloth stamped silver. Plain endsheets. BAP.

45 Vesey Street, nd. 95x150mm, 379p. Frontispiece portrait of Lucile, second lithographic titlepage. Running head is "Lucile" in a gothic face. Quarter dark-green cloth stamped gold finished with lighter green cloth stamped gold, "PRESENTATION EDITION" stamped in lower right corner. Teg, silk bookmark, floral endsheets printed green and gold. S&EH: inscription dated June 15, 1895.
  

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