Accession number:
PML 75936
Published:
New York : Town Topics Publishing Company, 1905.
Description:
[4], 220, [5] pages : illustrations, portraits ; 41 x 31 cm
Credit:
Gift of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Notes:
Limited to 91 copies.
"We hereby certify that of this work ... we have printed one copy for each subscriber, two for the Library of Congress, one for the New York Public Library, one for the Library of the British Museum and one for the Archives of Town Topics, and no more; and that the plates from which the impressions were made have been destroyed. Bartlett & Company, The Orr Press"--Page [3], 1st sequence.
Library's copy is no. 38.
Binding:
Green levant morocco tooled in gilt, gilded edges, green watered silk doublures and flyleaves. Bound probably by MacDonald. Issued in wooden lined case.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Signed by the president of Tow Topic Publishing Company below limitation statement as issued; printers' signatures in ink on preliminary leaf 3 as issued; 86 signatures in ink of the Americans portrayed, including Pierpont Morgan on pages 17-23, as issued.
Provenance:
Bookplate of Julia P. Wightman.
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