Cloth
1841 · New York
by Bailey, Rev. R. W. (editor)
New York: George A Peters, 1841. Cloth. Good. viii, 288 pages plus thirteen plates extra to the pagination. 8vo. Publisher's cloth with blind stamped decorations and gilt centerpiece on both boards. Gilt spine. Boards are worn overall, with fraying at head/tail of the spine panel. Shelf worn, corners worn through the thin cloth typical of this period. Yellow endpapers. Light foxing and spotting throughout, several turned corners. Paper still supple.
Apparently contains the entire year of issues for 1841 based on the issue numbers. Each issue has a title page.
Jan 1841 (#1); Aug 1841(#2); Sept 1841 (#3); Oct 1841 (#4); Nov 1841 (#5) and Dec 1841 (#6).
Thirteen steel or copper engraved plates, two of which are hand colored flowers. One is of George Washington, a wood cut of the Pittsfield Young Ladies' Institute, and a lithograph of the Female College, Institute of Virginia. Plate #2 is bound opposite the portrait of Bailey instead of opposite page 30 as called for. Cloth. (Inventory #: 29463)
Apparently contains the entire year of issues for 1841 based on the issue numbers. Each issue has a title page.
Jan 1841 (#1); Aug 1841(#2); Sept 1841 (#3); Oct 1841 (#4); Nov 1841 (#5) and Dec 1841 (#6).
Thirteen steel or copper engraved plates, two of which are hand colored flowers. One is of George Washington, a wood cut of the Pittsfield Young Ladies' Institute, and a lithograph of the Female College, Institute of Virginia. Plate #2 is bound opposite the portrait of Bailey instead of opposite page 30 as called for. Cloth. (Inventory #: 29463)
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