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One of six special copies of an extra-illustrated volume celebrating Charles Evans

Lot 23
25.05.2022 17:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 23 | One of six special copies of an extra-illustrated volume celebrating Charles Evans
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$ 12 000 – 18 000
One of six special copies of an extra-illustrated volume celebrating Charles EvansCharles Goodspeed, 1943EVANS, Charles (1850-1935). American Bibliography 1639 - 1729. Illustrated with Fifty-nine Original leaves From Early American Books and an Historical Notice of the Author and his Work by Lawrence C. Wroth. Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, Co., 1943. A rare, deluxe version of volume one of Charles Evans's celebrated bibliography. Michael J. Walsh's copy, one of six made for collaborators. Although produced under the auspices of Charles Goodspeed, this celebratory volume, illustrated with original leaves and limited to forty copies, was the product of the combined efforts of several giants of the era. First was Clarence Brigham of the American Antiquarian society who supplied sets of unbound sheets of volume one of the Bibliography that Evans had left with the Society on his death in 1935. Michael J. Walsh, the Americana specialist at Goodspeed's, mined the shop's copious holding of imperfect volumes to supply leaves. Bibliographer Lawrence Wroth supplied the introduction and the table of contents of the added leaves. Of the forty volumes produced, six were set aside for contributors, and this copy belonged to Michael J. Walsh. Special care was taken to use title pages and colophon leaves as samples in the reserved six volumes which also included additional, loose leaves housed in a pocket affixed to the rear pastedown. Highlights include a leaf from John Eliot's translation of the Bible into Massachusett (Evans 72) and a leaf from Cotton Mather's Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions (Evans 486). Quarto (272 x 220mm). Half morocco (lightly rubbed at hinges); slipcase. Provenance: Michael J. Walsh (1894-1984, ownership signature on title and initials on half-title).
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