[Portfolio]: Twenty Fine Steel Plate Engravings of Eminent Authors and Poets, With Fac-Similes of the Autographs

by (POE, Edgar Allen, William Shakespeare, Alfred Tennyson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Burns, Charles Dickens, and others)

$250 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

[New York: Ralph Trautmann, 1879. Unbound. Near Fine. Portfolio. Twenty engraved plates and one contents card laid into a four-fold chemise of leather over watered silk. The engraved cards are nicely printed on either white or pale pink cards measuring 5" x 7" with rounded corners and gilt edges. The engraved cards are bright and about fine with the author's name penciled neatly in a tiny hand on the unprinted verso (and one with a small penciled note on the front); contents card a trifle foxed with one tiny edge nick. Housed in the worn remains of the four-fold chemise that is lacking several panels, including the front cover. We located a couple of examples in the trade of the same engravings but bound accordion-style into cloth. In that case, the publisher's information was printed at the bottom of the contents card; we are unsure why it was removed for this iteration.

• Publisher: Ralph Trautmann
• Year: 1879
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: unknown

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