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(Americana : Early Readership) 7 Pieces. Bookplates - Notable 18th and early 19th century American Figures: Bookplate of Elias Boudinot (President of the Continental Congress, 1782). Engraved, 100 x 82 mm - sheet size. Mounting evidence on reverse - small areas thinned. * Bookplate of William S. Johnson (member of Constitutional Convention). Engraved, 104 x 80 mm - sheet size. Minor wear. * Bookplate of Charles Norris (prominent Philadelphia Quaker merchant, son of Isaac Norris). Engraved, 95 x 73 mm - sheet size. Tide line within image. * Bookplate of Isaac Norris (early Philadelphia Quaker merchant, mayor, etc.). Engraved, 79 x 59 mm, trimmed at or just within plate mark. * Bookplate of John Marshall (fourth Chief Justice of the United States.) 94 x 71 mm. Trimmed at plate mark, professionally conserved, signed in ink by the British writer Thomas Jefferson Hogg [at] Oxford. * Bookplate of William Parsons (appointed Surveyor General of Pennsylvania in 1741, founder of Easton, Pa). Engraved, 72 x 55 mm. Trimmed within plate mark, some glue residue from mounting on reverse. * Wharton, Thomas (Revolutionary era Pennsylvania merchant and politician - served as first President of Pennsylvania following the Declaration of Independence). Engraved, 85 x 55 mm. Light foxing, old small cellotape on reverse.