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== Description == '''Over the Counter, Spectacles on Nose, Old Richard Stooped.''' Illustration signed '''Abbey''' for J. T. Trowbridge's ''The Book of Gold: A Christmas Story''. An elderly bookseller wearing spectacles reads an open book at the counter, watched by a cloaked visitor, with another figure in the shadowed background. Books, a ladder, scissors and a hanging lamp form the surrounding shop interior. ''Harper's New Monthly Magazine'', '''vol. LIV (54), no. CCCXIX (319), December 18...
