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Thaddeus Davids & Co., New York. [c.1860]. First Edition, 72,4,[6]pp., with an elaborate chromolithographed half-title, 17 lithographed plates (1 coloured), final leaf a little creased, re-cased, orig. terra-cotta embossed cloth, gilt decoration and lettering on upper cover, extremities slightly rubbed, t.e.g. An early and handsome history of ink produced by an ink merchant in New York City. The lithographers were Snyder, Black and Strum and set in a rather unusual American script type printed by Francis Hart, with whom the young Theodore DeVinne apprenticed. Not in Bigmore & Wyman. |
