American Beauty Personified as the Nine Muses

by Joseph Fagnani

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First edition · Signed

Boston, MA: A. A. Childs & Co., Printed by Rand, Avery & Frye , nd 1869 . First edition. Square 12mo 7 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches . 27 leaves printed rectos only , the text enclosed within bold red rules. Photographic portrait frontispiece of the artist Joseph Fagnani. The text on leaves 16-27, The Nine Muses, defends the beauty of American women as equal to that of the Greek ideal, is signed C.A.B. C. A. Bristed and is reprinted from the Chicago Art

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