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Scrimshaw history / Robert Mount.

Accession number
PML 250998
Creator
Mount, Robert L.
Published
Morro Bay, Calif. : Tabula Rasa Press, 1986.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
"The scrimshaw work on the cover was done by the author on ivory. It depicts the Pride of Baltimore a topsail schooner sunk in a freak storm in 1986 off the coast of Puerto Rico... this edition is limited to just 100 copies... " -- p. 37-38.
Library has copy no. 56.
Description
38 p. : ill. ; 47 x 37 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed by Robert Mount in pen on colophon.
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman, with her bookplate.
Binding
Blue leather with a piece of ivory scrimshaw (32 x 21 mm) inlaid in front cover.
Classification
Department