Journals of Congress, Containing the Proceedings from Sept. 5, 1774 to Jan. 1, 1776

by Continental Congress

$4,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

2 , 310, 12 pp. With the index in the rear. 8vo. Contemporary reverse calf, bound by Aitken ? , borders elaborately tooled in blind with a wide floral roll tool between saw tooth border with floral corner pieces. Blindstamp on the title. Evans 15683; Reese, Revolutionary Hundred 48; ESTC W20603. See See Spawn, Willman, and Carol Spawn, “The Aitken Shop: Identification of an Eighteenth-Century Bindery and Its Tools” in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, vol. 57, no. 4,

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