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Talisman.

Accession number
PML 196459-61
Published
New York : Elam Bliss, 1827-1830.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Library has all 3 vols.
Preface signed Francis Herbert. This was the joint pseudonym of W.C. Bryant, R.C. Sands and G.C. Verplanck under which they edited the Talisman from 1827 to 1830.
The plates are engraved by A.B. Durand, V. Balch, Peter Maverick, G.B. Ellis, G.W. Hatch. Plates for the 1830 issue are engraved by G.W. Hatch, S.G. Gimber, Wm. Hoogland, Peter Maverick, A.B. Durand, Tho. Kelly, C.G. Childs, F. Kearny, W.E. Tucker.
The Talisman for MDCCCXXX ... 3rd ed. Philadelphia, J. Laval & S.F. Bradford, 1829. (xii, 358 p. front., plates).
Description
v. : ill. (front., plates, facsims.)
Provenance
Theodore Irwin, purchased April 1881 from J.H. Merill.
Binding
3/4 red morocco by William Pratt.
Classification
Department