framed, variously measured. Five frames holding a total of twenty bookplates from notable American industrialists. Industrialists include: the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and his wife Louise Whitfield Carnegie, Tobacco manufacturer Pierre Lorillard, banker and aviation consultant William A. M. Burden, iron ore conglomerate Samuel Mather, inventor King C. Gillette, mercantilist Lewis Rodman Wanamaker, industrial Isabel Weld Perkins Anderson, mercantilist W. Atlee Burpee, Jr., automotive tycoon Walter Chrysler, industrialist J. Ogden Armour, industrialist Henry Harkness Flagler, newspaper.....
Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1803. 4to. publisher's original full calf with black and red leather spine labels. 675+(1); 632-832, 677-679 (apparently the last few pages of the first volume), (834)-1080, 77 pages. 2 volumes. There is a pasted-on handwritten note on the front pastedown which states, "This Bible was the Property of My Grandfather, Saml. Canby and presented to me by My Mother, M Mortons, Mary M Dillon." On the rear blank leaf is a printed.....
