MAUDE: PROSE & VERSE

Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1897. Hardcover. Small Octavo, 122, 15 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in full burgundy cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Scuffing to boards and spine. Bumping to corners. Moderate foxing to textblock. Bookplate on front pastedown. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. Shelved in Hardcover Fiction. From the collection of Silvio Bedini. Bedini spent twenty five years at the Smithsonian Institution, serving as curator in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering in the new Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History) before serving as first Assistant Director then Deputy Director of the National Museum of History and Technology. He then served as Keeper of Rare Books at the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, before becoming a Historian Emeritus. He specialized in early scientific instruments. 1379165. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. (Inventory #: 1379165)