Day book 1833-1840

by Simeon P. Pullen

$650 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

Tall narrow folio, 150 pages, in ink; the first 6 leaves with overpasted newspaper clippings; some pages loose, cut or missing; some pencil doodlings; some toning and occasional offsetting; contemporary and likely original calf-backed marbled boards, spine partially perished and joints cracked. Detailed accounts of the work of a largely unknown itinerant Massachusetts housewright and general builder, Simeon P. Pullen. Housewrights were somewhat different than simple carpenters in that they

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