The Boston Port Bill as Pictured by a Contemporary London Cartoonist
New York: Grolier Club, 1904. 1st Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good Plus. Item #009123
Thick 4to.,xxx, 334pp. Beautiful First Edition, one of only 325 copies, printed on American hand-made paper. Bound in full brown calf, raised bands, gilt titles, rules, dentelles and spine devices . Frontis and 32 engravings. Square, tight and clean throughout with no foxing or interior blemishes. Top of joints starting but quite firm. Some fairly mild rubbing to surface and edges. From the library of John Stewart Kennedy, (1830-1909), with his bookplate on the front paste-down with the Kennedy clan ancestral crest. Kennedy, a member of the Jekyll Island Club, (along with J.P. Morgan and William Rockefeller), was a Scottish-born American businessman, financier and philanthropist. (wikipedia) A quite handsome collectable copy.
Price: $225.00