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EARLY AMERICAN CHILDREN'S BOOKS WITH BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE BOOKS IN HIS PRIVATE COLLECTION.
Rosenbach, A.S.W.
Foreword by A. Edward Newton.
Reprint of the 1933 first edition. Limited to 150 copies. Many illustrations and 816 books described. Arranged chronologically, each work is collated and annotated. Plates in black-and-white.
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JACOB BIGELOW'S AMERICAN MEDICAL BOTANY, 1817-1821, AN EX...
by Wolfe, Richard J.
Limited to 300 numbered copies, this work (Taylor A21) is an excellent, scholarly study, finely printed by Henry Morris. With two original plates intended for Bigelow's book, Jacob Bigelow's American Medical Botany shows a plate that Bigelow had meant to use in his work but didn't. "The two illustrations mounted into this study comprise original, engraved plates--one hand-colored and one left uncolored--which Jacob Bigelow had made up when he initially intended to illustrate his edition in the usual, hand-colored way. As this study shows, the burdensome aspects of this method led him and his cohorts to invent a mechanical method of printing the plates and coloring them concurrently. This resulted in the abandonment of these initial plates, some of which had been colored by artists and some left untouched. These surplus plates, amounting to several thousand, came into the Boston Medical Library in 1927 through the bequest of Jacob Bigelow's grandson, Dr. William Sturgis Bigelow, and it was deemed desirable to mount two of them--a colored and an uncolored specimen--into each copy of this edition, in this way enhancing it with an air of originality and added interest."
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