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[C.1840s-1850s, "Warrior Bride" & Other Women-Focused Engravings within De Luxe Album, likely gathered by or presented to Maria A. Melvin]
by [Maria A. Melvin (later Mrs. George E. Meacom)]
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Wilmington, Delaware, United States
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About This Item
[Likely Massachusetts, c.1840s-1850s]. [26] leaves of plates; tissue guards. Small 8vo. Presentation Binding: full red, straight grain sheep; boards with gilt rolled edges; spine rules; marbled endpapers. Newspaper clippings mounted on verso of free, front endpaper, one loose clipping, plus one clipped illustration "scrap" mounted opposite. Gilt stamping on upper cover: "Maria A. Melvin." Spine nearly perished; upper board starting; lacking one tissue guard and possibly lacking one plate; fair.
De luxe c.1840s-1850s album kept Maria A. Melvin of Massachusetts. The album comprises 26 engravings, 17 of which depict women. They include portraits; women character "types;" women literary characters; and genre scenes featuring women.
Newspaper clippings on the endpapers supply some genealogical clues about the Melvin family as well as the Meacom family into which Melvin married. Melvin was likely a teenager or young woman in Charlestown (Boston), Massachusetts when she assembled or was given the album.
In 1859, Melvin married George E. Meacom, age 26-the son of Ebenezer and Lucinda Meacom. Melvin herself may have been born around the same time as her husband, c.1833, thus dating the album to the 1840s or 1850s. The inclusion in the album of two engravings from painter Thomas Cole's Voyage of Life series (1842) and an engraving showing writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (born 1804) in his forties may support this supposition.
An newspaper obituary notice laid into the album reports the death of "Maria A. Melvin Meacom, formerly of Charlestown of an old and respected Charlestown family, at Lynn [Massachusetts]."
Details
- Bookseller
- Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3726495
- Title
- [C.1840s-1850s, "Warrior Bride" & Other Women-Focused Engravings within De Luxe Album, likely gathered by or presented to Maria A. Melvin]
- Author
- [Maria A. Melvin (later Mrs. George E. Meacom)]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
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About the Seller
Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA)
Biblio member since 2020
Wilmington, Delaware
About Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA)
Established in 1995, Ian Brabner, Rare Americana buys and sells rare books and manuscripts covering diverse facets of American history.
Our inventory encompasses a broad spectrum of collecting interests, with a special focus on 18th- and 19th-century American history, including African-American history, women's history, and unique or unusual materials documenting the American experience. In our stock, you will also find rare pamphlets, documents, letters and correspondence, journals, diaries, significant archives, as well as original art, graphics, and photographs.
Our inventory encompasses a broad spectrum of collecting interests, with a special focus on 18th- and 19th-century American history, including African-American history, women's history, and unique or unusual materials documenting the American experience. In our stock, you will also find rare pamphlets, documents, letters and correspondence, journals, diaries, significant archives, as well as original art, graphics, and photographs.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Rolled
- rolled spine or spine rolled. Damage to a book created by pressure to the spine making it fold or crease in the cover. Damage...
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