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4 by 6 inches, closed. Glossy printed paper boards, bearing the cover title: "Illustrated / My Own / ABC / T. W. Strong N. Y." Within is one sheet folded accordion-style and affixed to the rear cover. Extended it reaches approximately 108 inches. Each "page" bears a letter of the alphabet, all colored by hand. E is for Esquimeaux; N is for Napoleon; V is for Queen Victoria; H is for Highlander, and so forth. Light foxing; several of the folds have been neatly repaired from behind; page 'Y' has been supplied from a different copy; evidence of old repairs to some of the folds; covers rubbed and worn; but still a very good copy and quite rare.
My Own A, B, C, Illustrated
(Strong, T. W., firm)
New York: T. W. Strong, Pub., n.d. (1855).
Price: $750.00
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Folio. (11 by 14-1.2 inches). Original full brown leather tooled in gilt on the upper board. Spine in 6 compartments, gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. With 28 finely executed illustrations of the treasures of the Royal Secret Vault (commonly called the Grune Gewolbe, or Green Vault,) in Dresden: 24 are finely detailed and colored chromolithographs, the remaining four are uncolored. All are mounted. The frontispiece is a mounted plate, possibly an albumen photograph, of an engraving of Johann Melchior Dinglinger. The celebrated goldsmith is holding the Bath of Diana (reproduced in color as Plate XXVIII). A text description by Major Baron von Landsberg precedes each plate. The upper hinge has been repaired, the corners renewed and the top inch of the spine replaced with matching leather. The binding is still presentable and the contents are fine. Quite scarce; the OCLC located no copies of this German edition and only three copies of the English edition of the same year. With the bookplate of coal magnate Edward J Berwind and likely from his library at The Elms in Newport.
Das Grune Gewolbe zu Dresden
Gruner, Ludwig
Dresden: C. C. Meinhold und Sohne, 1862.
Price: $2,500.00
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