Featured 1877 1st edition ? nan the new fashioned girl

currently going through old books that ive picked up over the years

not a classic for sure, but wondering if its a first edition, cant find another example of a first edition either

seems to have been reprinted quite recently
https://www.amazon.com/Nan-fashioned-girl-1877-Hardcover/dp/B011LCZNBQ
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nan-Fashioned-Sarah-Catherine-Hallowell/dp/1164876953

the only other 1877 edition i can find is this one, but nowhere on it does it say 1877

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/842...MItaP8qaCH7QIVxNmyCh1SJwzmEAQYAiABEgLrCvD_BwE

if mine is a 1st, do ya reckon it would of had a dust jacket ?

any thought appreciated

 

ill be adding another page every day

 

AND YOU'LL BE DRIVING US CRAZZZY!!!!!!!!!!!! (I WAS going to post "turn the page....turn the page!!!! )

 

Here is some information about the author. In the Published Works section they seem to be listing the edition you have. That is not proof of a first edition, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Catherine_Fraley_Hallowell

 

Brilliant info thanks fig. Seems to be the same publisher as mine which is a promising sign

 

Seems to link to the same copy as mine

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...ce=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

If you scroll up the cover is same as well

 

Just maybe to unknown to be considered valuable though

 

Maybe. I do like the cover. You asked about the possibility of a the book originally having a dust jacket. I've always wondered that about those very ornate covers myself. Maybe somebody here will know?

 

Yeah me too I've got an early (not 1st) Dracula that is like it too. maybe

@2manybooks wouldnt mind taking a look

 

here is the dracula, very ropey, but cool for 50p, has no publication info, so have no idea of edition

 

Your Dracula is published by Rider, some time after 1903. Not worth much in that shape. The publisher is determined by the ads in back, which you have wisely shown; the date by checking the dates of the other Stoker titles mentioned - one could date it more finely using the other titles listed in the catalog.

As to whether Nan had a jacket, I am looking at Godburn's Nineteenth-Century Dust-Jackets and can definitively say "maybe." Jackets were in common use by the 1880s, though few survive; less common in the 1870s, though they date to at least 1819, and that's an obscure publisher not mentioned in my reference, so who can say? If it did, it was likely very plain. The book itself is probably the first edition, as it has the date on the title page - though British practice differs from American, and I know less about Scottish publishers.

 

Great info tmc, thanks for your time