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The Echo
- Used
- Condition
- Contemporary half crimson pebbled morocco and marbled with the label of boards, with the binder's label of A.L. Harrison, Binder
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
(New York): Printed at the Porcupine Press by Pasquin Petronius, 1807. Engraved Frontispiece Title-page engraved & 7 otherplates, including one called "The Negro Ball" showing black musicians and dancers at a black ball. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half crimson pebbled morocco and marbled with the label of boards, with the binder's label of A.L. Harrison, Binder, 70 State Street, Albany. Staining on the head of pp. 35-43 affecting plate. Engraved Frontispiece Title-page engraved & 7 otherplates, including one called "The Negro Ball" showing black musicians and dancers at a black ball. 1 vols. 8vo. Authors are Alsop, Dwight, Cogswell, Hopkins & Trumbull. Incomplete at the end (328 pp.). Sabin 21778; BAL 1315
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Details
- Bookseller
- James Cummins Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21874
- Title
- The Echo
- Format/Binding
- Engraved Frontispiece Title-page engraved & 7 otherplates, including one called "The Negro Ball" showing black musicians and dan
- Book Condition
- Used - Contemporary half crimson pebbled morocco and marbled with the label of boards, with the binder's label of A.L. Harrison, Binder
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Printed at the Porcupine Press by Pasquin Petronius
- Place of Publication
- (New York)
- Date Published
- 1807
- Keywords
- American
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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James Cummins Bookseller
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About the Seller
James Cummins Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
New York, New York
About James Cummins Bookseller
Founded in 1978 by James Cummins, the firm has grown to include two New Jersey locations as well as the main store at 699 Madison Avenue (between 62nd and 63rd Streets) in New York City.Hours: Monday - Friday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (During July & August, until 4:00 p.m. on Fridays.)The Madison Avenue store is a seventh-floor oasis for book-lovers, a quiet and pleasantly furnished book room with a carefully chosen, expertly catalogued and broad-based selection of fine and rare books, autographs, manuscripts, and works of art. We have built notable private collections for American and international clients. Our stock is always changing, and our steady input from private buying and public auctions assures our clients of new surprises (and temptations!) at each visit. Our stock covers a wide range of collecting interests, with particular emphasis in the following fields: British and American Literature, Sporting Books, Private Press and Illustrated Books, 19th-Century Color Plate Books, Americana, Travel, Sets and Fine Bindings, History, and Authors' Manuscripts and Letters. Our catalogued inventory exceeds 50,000 titles, much of which can be searched on the internet. In addition, our New Jersey warehouse contains over 400,000 books in all subject areas. We might have the books you're looking for.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- BAL
- Bibliography of American Literature (commonly abbreviated as BAL in descriptions) is the quintessential reference work for any...
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