The Service. Edited

by F. B. Sanborn by Binding, Henry David Thoreau

$650 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

No. 458 of 500 copies. 31 pp. Printed at the Merrymount Press. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary tan pigskin, ruled in blind, boards with a central field bordered in blind and semé with gold dots, a.e.g. Front board detached. BAL 20138; Smith, Merrymount Press, #138; Tidcombe, Women Bookbinders 1880-1920 pp. 179-180. Item #317740 an unfinished binding done by me at Miss Emily Preston's bindery, N.Y. Patty P.L.

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