Centennial Portfolio: A Souvenir of the International Exhibition at Philadelphia, Comprising Lithographic Views of Fifty of Its Principal Buildings, with Letter-Press Description

by Thompson Westcott

$500 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

Philadelphia: Thomas Hunter, 1876. Landscape format 19cm . Dark red cloth over bevelled boards, stamped ornately in gold and black on front and spine, in blind on rear board, all edges stained red; brown coated endpapers; viii, 104pp, foliated 1-52 ; 52 tinted lithographs and 2 black and white maps of the exhibition grounds. With the bookplate of William Crowninshield Endicott to front pastedown. Straight and bright, with minor

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