Philadelphia in the Romantic Age of Lithography: An Illustrated History of Early Lithography in Philadelphia with a Descriptive List of Philadelphia Scenes Made by Philadelphia Lithographers Before 1866 [INSCRIBED[
by Wainwright, Nicholas B
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- Hardcover
- Signed
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About This Item
Philadelphia, PA: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1958. Book. VG-. Cloth. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Light greenish-gray cloth, lettered in black. Mildly foxed/toned toward and along edges on both covers, minor exposure at bottom corners, approx. 1/4" exposed at top front corner. Text block edges toned by age, with spotting along bottom edge. Color illus. dust jacket shows approx. 10% loss to front panel, also loss along spine panel and bottom rear edge, now in archival mylar. Inscribed by author to Boyd Lee Spahr, undated, on title page. The first edition, with the frontis. in color. [xi],261 pp., illus. in color, b&w..
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- Title
- Philadelphia in the Romantic Age of Lithography: An Illustrated History of Early Lithography in Philadelphia with a Descriptive List of Philadelphia Scenes Made by Philadelphia Lithographers Before 1866 [INSCRIBED[
- Author
- Wainwright, Nicholas B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG-
- Jacket Condition
- Fair-Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Date Published
- 1958
- Bookseller catalogs
- Pennsylvania: Philadelphia;
- Size
- Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
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