Watch List notes:

Hodges, Edward M. HODGES' AMERICAN BANK NOTE SAFE-GUARD; GIVING FAC SIMILE DESCRIPTIONS OF UPWARDS OF TEN THOUSAND BANK NOTES EMBRACING EVERY GENUINE NOTE ISSUED IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. REVISED AND CORRECTED, AND ARRANGED GEOGRAPHICALLY AND ALPHABETICALLY. THE MOST EFFECTUAL DETECTER OF SPURIOUS, ALTERED AND COUNTERFEIT BILLS EVER PUBLISHED. THE ONLY WORK OF THE KIND EXTANT. New York: Published by Edward M. Hodges, 1862. Folio [36 by 22.5 cm], later brown half morocco, gilt, with original decoratively blindstamped brown cloth; upper cover lettered in gilt; spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt. 336 pages; typographical depictions of bank notes, thirty to a page, throughout. Original covers show some sunning; near fine. The Hodges family were publishers of a prominent New York bank note reporter, along with several other similar publications, from the mid-1850s to the mid-1860s, beginning with the 1856 Hodges' New Bank Note Delineator, issued by John Tyler Hodges. Becoming the New Bank Note Safe-Guard with the 1857 edition, these useful publications were gradually enlarged and revised by brothers John Tyler and Daniel Milton Hodges and, with the present volume in 1862, the work was taken over by Daniel's son Edward. It remained in the latter's hands until the final edition of 1865. The 1862 editions are considered to be transitional, as some copies (Sullivan Type M) were printed under Daniel's name, while others (Sullivan Type N, presumably printed later in the year) were printed under Edward's name. Ex Ron Horstman; ex Michael J. Sullivan Library (Stack's Bowers November 2019 Baltimore Sale, lot 10035 at $2880).