Kolbe & Fanning
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Hardcover Gilbert & Elder on 1796 Cents
Gilbert, E., and Thomas L. Elder. THE VARIETIES OF THE UNITED STATES CENTS OF 1796. New York, 1909. 4to, original brown cloth, gilt. (16) pages (last leaf blank); 2 fine photographic plates of cents. 1935-dated notation, partly effaced, on flyleaf. Front cover with some spotting; front hinge cracked. Very good or better. A decent copy of the Special Hardbound Edition. One of only 300 copies printed, most of which were bound in card covers. In a letter sold in our June 1990 Adams sale, George Clapp wrote: "Rud Kohler wrote me that Gilbert once told him that he had loaned his manuscript of 1796 to Elder who wished to look it over, and the first thing he knew, Elder had published it without consulting him." Sheldon confirms this and notes that "Gilbert had the material for a first-rate monograph. It was either not ready or not intended for publication and was badly edited." Ex Roger Persichilli Library.
Gilbert, E., and Thomas L. Elder. THE VARIETIES OF THE UNITED STATES CENTS OF 1796. New York, 1909. 4to, original brown cloth, gilt. (16) pages (last leaf blank); 2 fine photographic plates of cents. 1935-dated notation, partly effaced, on flyleaf. Front cover with some spotting; front hinge cracked. Very good or better. A decent copy of the Special Hardbound Edition. One of only 300 copies printed, most of which were bound in card covers. In a letter sold in our June 1990 Adams sale, George Clapp wrote: "Rud Kohler wrote me that Gilbert once told him that he had loaned his manuscript of 1796 to Elder who wished to look it over, and the first thing he knew, Elder had published it without consulting him." Sheldon confirms this and notes that "Gilbert had the material for a first-rate monograph. It was either not ready or not intended for publication and was badly edited." Ex Roger Persichilli Library.