Accession number
PML 251945
Published
London : Rock Brothers & Payne, [1850?]
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
Engraved and illustrated title page. Pagination includes frontis and title page.
Publication span dates from an obituary for John Payne on page 284 of The Printing Times and Lithographer, November 15, 1882, "about forty years ago became a partner", i.e., circa 1842, and a letter online dated May 23, 1949, by Joseph Garnier, rare book dealer in St. Louis, Missouri to Elizabeth Ball of Muncie, Indiana, regarding the title Bijou Illustrations of the United States, "No date, but appears to be about 1840-50."
Library's copy hooused in black morocco stamped in gilt oyster box by Julia Wightman.
Publication span dates from an obituary for John Payne on page 284 of The Printing Times and Lithographer, November 15, 1882, "about forty years ago became a partner", i.e., circa 1842, and a letter online dated May 23, 1949, by Joseph Garnier, rare book dealer in St. Louis, Missouri to Elizabeth Ball of Muncie, Indiana, regarding the title Bijou Illustrations of the United States, "No date, but appears to be about 1840-50."
Library's copy hooused in black morocco stamped in gilt oyster box by Julia Wightman.
Description
[32] leaves : chiefly illustrations ; 31 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscription in ink on front flyleaf: C & W Chapman [illegible From EJ Candace Nov [illegible] 1857.
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman, with her bookplate.
Binding
Black limp morocco stamped in gilt.
Classification
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Department