By: Henry L. Stephens. Lithography by L. Rosenthal
Price: $750.00
Publisher:
Philadelphia, Samuel Robinson. Color lithography by Rosenthal.: 1851
Edition: First
Seller ID: 006469
Binding: Cloth
Condition: Very Good Minus
N.d., 1851. Large 8vo. 216 pp. 38, of 40, chromolithographs, and these have hand-colored touch-ups. Missing the Alm's House Bird and the Frontis. The plates and accompanying sketches lampoon various well-known Philadelphia figures of the day. While most of the personages may now be obscure, a knowledge of them is not a prerequisite for enjoying the droll illustrations and the mock scholarship of the text describing the particular pseudo-species depicted. Ex-lib, with indicia the buckram cloth binding, the library call number lower spine, a library bookplate on FEP and a mounted check o...
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