Accession number
PML 63065
Published
Germantaun [PA] : Gedruckt bey Michael Billmeyer, 1792.
Credit line
Purchased on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 1972.
Notes
PML copy with a piece of type ( 23 x 2 mm) printed on its side (t.p.).
"No. 34. District of Pennsylvania, to wit: Be it remembered that on the first day of May, in the sixteenth Year of the Independence of the United States of America, Michael Billmeyer .. hath deposited in this office the title of a book ... Ein wohl eingerichtetes... in conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States... [signed] Sam. Caldwell, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania"--verso of t.p.
Printer's monogram device on t.p.
Owner's notes in brown ink on fly-leaves, dated 1792 through 1819, recording family events.
Frontispiece depicts the steep path towards the temple of learning, children playing below.
"No. 34. District of Pennsylvania, to wit: Be it remembered that on the first day of May, in the sixteenth Year of the Independence of the United States of America, Michael Billmeyer .. hath deposited in this office the title of a book ... Ein wohl eingerichtetes... in conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States... [signed] Sam. Caldwell, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania"--verso of t.p.
Printer's monogram device on t.p.
Owner's notes in brown ink on fly-leaves, dated 1792 through 1819, recording family events.
Frontispiece depicts the steep path towards the temple of learning, children playing below.
Description
xiv, 120 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 17 cm
Binding
Contemporary 1/4 brown calf. over brown paper boards.
Classification
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