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A Fine Set of Hough's Washingtoniana
Hough, Franklin B. WASHINGTONIANA: OR, MEMORIALS OF THE DEATH OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF THE FUNERAL HONORS PAID TO HIS MEMORY, WITH A LIST OF TRACTS AND VOLUMES PRINTED UPON THE OCCASION, AND A CATALOGUE OF MEDALS COMMEMORATING THE EVENT. Roxbury: W. Elliot Woodward, 1865. Printed in Albany by Joel Munsell. Two volumes, bound in one. Royal 8vo, modern full brown crushed morocco; front cover lettered in gilt; spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; top page edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Titles printed in red and black, with Munsell's printer's device; engraved frontispieces of Washington in each volume, the first from a painting by Rembrandt Peale, the second from one by Edward Savage; viii, (9)–272 + 304, (2) pages; large folding engraved "Map of General Washington's Farm of Mount Vernon from a Drawing Transmitted by the General." Signature of original owner George L. Phillips on both title pages. Untrimmed. Fine. A monumental work on Washington, printed for W. Elliot Woodward and including Woodward's (unsigned) listing of memorial medals of Washington in the second volume (pages 278–291). Washingtoniana is less devoted to the life of Washington than it is to recording all of the events and activities which surrounded the death of the first president, a number of which have strong numismatic connections. Issued in a limited edition of 200 copies in royal octavo (of which this is No. 161), 85 copies in quarto, and 6 quarto copies on Whatman's drawing paper, Washingtoniana is a remarkable example of American printing of the period. The printer, Joel Munsell, is known to numismatists for being the printer of W. Elliot Woodward's Historical Series (as well as some of his sale catalogues) and of Henry Phillips's Historical Sketches of early American paper money. Munsell lists this work on page 136 of his Bibliotheca Munselliana, citing 90 copies on large paper. David S. Edelstein's Joel Munsell: Printer and Antiqurian (1950) lavishes particular praise on this work, describing it as one that "commends itself to the lover of fine printing." Ex William A. Burd Library (Kolbe & Fanning Sale 148, lot 395).
Estimate: 500 USD
Hough, Franklin B. WASHINGTONIANA: OR, MEMORIALS OF THE DEATH OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF THE FUNERAL HONORS PAID TO HIS MEMORY, WITH A LIST OF TRACTS AND VOLUMES PRINTED UPON THE OCCASION, AND A CATALOGUE OF MEDALS COMMEMORATING THE EVENT. Roxbury: W. Elliot Woodward, 1865. Printed in Albany by Joel Munsell. Two volumes, bound in one. Royal 8vo, modern full brown crushed morocco; front cover lettered in gilt; spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; top page edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Titles printed in red and black, with Munsell's printer's device; engraved frontispieces of Washington in each volume, the first from a painting by Rembrandt Peale, the second from one by Edward Savage; viii, (9)–272 + 304, (2) pages; large folding engraved "Map of General Washington's Farm of Mount Vernon from a Drawing Transmitted by the General." Signature of original owner George L. Phillips on both title pages. Untrimmed. Fine. A monumental work on Washington, printed for W. Elliot Woodward and including Woodward's (unsigned) listing of memorial medals of Washington in the second volume (pages 278–291). Washingtoniana is less devoted to the life of Washington than it is to recording all of the events and activities which surrounded the death of the first president, a number of which have strong numismatic connections. Issued in a limited edition of 200 copies in royal octavo (of which this is No. 161), 85 copies in quarto, and 6 quarto copies on Whatman's drawing paper, Washingtoniana is a remarkable example of American printing of the period. The printer, Joel Munsell, is known to numismatists for being the printer of W. Elliot Woodward's Historical Series (as well as some of his sale catalogues) and of Henry Phillips's Historical Sketches of early American paper money. Munsell lists this work on page 136 of his Bibliotheca Munselliana, citing 90 copies on large paper. David S. Edelstein's Joel Munsell: Printer and Antiqurian (1950) lavishes particular praise on this work, describing it as one that "commends itself to the lover of fine printing." Ex William A. Burd Library (Kolbe & Fanning Sale 148, lot 395).
Estimate: 500 USD