The Young Americans Library

by Childrens Books Americana

$4,500 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1844-53 . 180 x 120 mm. 7 1/8 x 4 3/4 . 12 volumes. Original publisher's brown cloth with decorative blind-stamped covers, spines with gilt lettering, scrolling, the image of a shrouded set of books, and an eagle holding various patriotic symbols. Each volume with frontispiece and chromolithograph pictorial title page heightened with gold, the set with a total of 84

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