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The country seats of the United States of North America : with some scenes connected with them.

Accession number
PML 150310
Creator
Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834.
Published
Springland, near Bristol, Pennsylv[ani]a : Designed and published by W. Birch, enamel painter, 1808.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman.
Notes
Both title pages are engraved.
Originally issued to subscribers in 4 parts, 1808-1809. Subsequently issued in trade edition, which bears a copyright notice dated 1809. Cf. Snyder, Martin P. "William Birch: his country seats of the United States", Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography, v. 81 [1957], p. 234-5.
Added title page reads: Part the first.
Description
[4] leaves, [18] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 30 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Contemporary calf full binding.
Classification
Department