Raymond, R. W. The Merry-Go-Round : Stories for Boys and Girls. New York: Fords, Howard, and Hulbert, 1879. First Edition. [10781]
Green cloth with bright gilt & black decoration, 8 x 6 inches, 1879 gift inscription on ffep, 217 pp., one small scuff tear repaired on one leaf; thin faint tidemark bottom margin of the first several leaves. Wood engraved frontispiece by Karst, plus text illustrations. Very good. Hardcover.
"Electrotyped and Printed by Rand, Avery, & Co., 117 Franklin Street, Boston."
The stories are The Merry-go-round; What Johnny did in the Dark; The Skating-Club; James and Jim: Two Boys; The Angel of the House; The Star of Bethlehem; The Art of Asking Questions.
The illustrator is John Karst (1836-1922), b. Bingen, Germany; d. De Bruce, NY. He was a wood engraver whose illustrations were used in the book trade.
Rossiter Worthington Raymond (1840-1918), b. Cincinnati, Ohio, a captain during the American Civil War. Raymond was a mining engineer by trade who was also a devout Christian, is credited with writing several stories for children, a Paraphrase of Job, and several hymns. A Congregationalist, he was associated with the Plymouth Church in Brooklyn.
