Physical description

GREEN HARD COVERED BOOK WITH GOLD AND BLACK WRITING ON COVER. 254 PAGES OF STORIES AND POEMS. TITLE: THE BOOK TO BRIGHTEN A GLOOMY FACE; OR THE BOOK TO KILL GLOOM, MELANCHOLY, LOW SPIRITS, NERVOUSNESS, SOLMENCHOLY, DARK ANTICIPATIONS, SOUL-KILLING FOREBODINGS, AND THOUGHTS OF SUICIDE.

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

INSIDE COVER: PRESENTED TO MISS EMMA MORITZ - FOR SERVICES RENDERED TO THE "HOPE OF CLUNES JUVENILE LODGE" FROM HER AFFECTIONATE FRIENDS - SIGNED W.A. TAYLOR - CLUNES APRIL 25, 1878.

Summary

The book is an antique, 19th-century humor and joke book written by the pseudonymous author Cicero Merrysides.