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HOMES OF OUR FOREFATHERS IN BOSTON, OLD ENGLAND, AND BOSTON, NEW ENGLAND; from original drawings by ..
by WHITEFIELD, Edwin
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Lanesborough, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Boston: E. Whitefield, 1889. First Edition. 8vo, pp. [5],3-5,9-[139]pp. including sixty-three chromolithographic plates (including frontispiece) and one heliochrome plate. Large quarto. Bound in original green cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt. Hitchcock 1396. McGrath, p.163. Bennett, p.112. Reese, Stamped witha National Character, 109. Bettina Norton, Edwin Whitefield (1977), pp.143-44. A fine copy, crisp, clean and tight. Of all of the Whitefield books, it is likely that this one records the largest percentage of houses that no longer exist. This volume is especially interesting for the frontispiece to the second (Boston, New England) part, a colored photographic view of the Old State House. A so- called "heliochrome," printed by the Heliotype Printing Co., the print is an early example of a colored photographic plate; in it, color has been printed on top of a photographic image, imbuing it with an "oddly three- dimensional quality" (Reese).
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- Bookseller
- Second Life Books Inc
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57732
- Title
- HOMES OF OUR FOREFATHERS IN BOSTON, OLD ENGLAND, AND BOSTON, NEW ENGLAND; from original drawings by ..
- Author
- WHITEFIELD, Edwin
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- E. Whitefield
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1889
- Keywords
- americana
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Second Life Books Inc
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Lanesborough, Massachusetts
About Second Life Books Inc
Established on 1972, we sell used and rare books. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Assoc. of America, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers and the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Booksellers .
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