Pearls of American Poetry

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Pearls of American PoetryT.W. Gwilt Mapleson, [1853]MAPLESON, T.W. Gwilt (1815-1852). Pearls of American Poetry. New York: Wiley and Putnam, [1853]. Presentation copy of the first edition by Mapleson, whose work is "as good and worthy of enthusiasm as that of the English Sangorski half a century later" (Bennett). Representing the height of the gift book craze and illustrated by two leading Philadelphia lithographers, “this collection of poems is one of the most elaborate examples of mimicking illuminated manuscripts by way of chromolithography” (Stamped with a National Character 89). Bennett 71 (see note on p. 70).Quarto (247 x 213mm). 53 chromolithographed pages by Brett and Sinclair in the of style manuscript illumination on heavy card stock with tissue guards (some light spotting, last few pages with dampstaining to lower margin). Original black publisher's morocco, stamped in blind and gilt (worn at extremities, front joint cracked but holding). Provenance: Elisabeth Gibson Powers (1813-1892, wife of American sculptor Hiram Powers; presentation inscription dated 1861, with bookplate of her husband).
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