Melbourne, Australia: Douglas Stewart Fine Books, 2014. small folio. cloth, gilt on cover and spine, slipcase. (xii), 130 pages. Limited to 215 copies, of which this is one of 200 numbered copies bound thus. Tipped-in illustrations and photographs of Corrigan and the bookplates. Text set in Monotype Baskerville at Whittington Press, England. Includes an exclusive 90 minute interview with Pat Corrigan on DVD. Finely bound by hand in gilt-illustrated full cloth, with slipcase, at The.....
3.25" x 4.75" small 12mo bookplate. Isaiah Thomas altered to "Isaac Rand Thomas" as indicated on the plate itself. Faint notation below 'TUS" in NEC-ELATUS reads, "S.L.S after P.R." Printed on early watermarked laid paper. Exceptional eye appeal and workmanship. The printer was Sidney Lawton Smith (1845-1929). Smith was an American designer, etcher, engraver, illustrator, and bookplate artist. This bookplate for Isaiah Thomas was first engraved by Paul Revere and subsequently name altered by Sidney.....
