3 volumes in 5. 26.7x17.8 cm (10½x7"), duotone cloth with gilt armorial stamps on covers. Designed by D.B. Updike and printed at the Merrymount Press. "The John Carter Brown Library is the only important library in the United States devoted to collecting Americana printed before the nineteenth century; its rival, the Lenox collection, has been absorbed in the New York Public Library, and the later collection of Mr. E.D. Church has been drawn into the general library of Mr. Henry E. Huntington. As the largest and most valuable independent Library of early Americana it will occupy in the future, as it has in the past, a commanding place in the subject." - Prefatory Note, p. vi. Lot includes The John Carter Brown Library: A History by George Parker Winship and The Dedication of the Library Building...with the Addresses by William Vail Kellen...and Frederick Jackson Turner... Institutional stamps, perforations and call numbers.
3 volumes in 5. 26.7x17.8 cm (10½x7"), duotone cloth with gilt armorial stamps on covers. Designed by D.B. Updike and printed at the Merrymount Press. "The John Carter Brown Library is the only important library in the United States devoted to collecting Americana printed before the nineteenth century; its rival, the Lenox collection, has been absorbed in the New York Public Library, and the later collection of Mr. E.D. Church has been drawn into the general library of Mr. Henry E. Huntington. As the largest and most valuable independent Library of early Americana it will occupy in the future, as it has in the past, a commanding place in the subject." - Prefatory Note, p. vi. Lot includes The John Carter Brown Library: A History by George Parker Winship and The Dedication of the Library Building...with the Addresses by William Vail Kellen...and Frederick Jackson Turner... Institutional stamps, perforations and call numbers.
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