benjamin william evarts (4 Ergebnisse)

Stitched self wrappers. First edition. 18 pp., [2] pp. Sm. 4to. Sale code: 0048. January 1893. OCLC locates only one copy: Rosenbach. A very good, edge worn copy, with lightly foxed and partially detached wrappers, mail fold.

Zustand: Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. . Signed by the publisher on limited edition page. Limited edition, number 80 out of 250 copies. Slightly dampstained. Writing inside. (book collecting, antiques).

Zustand: Good. New York city 1896 first edition. Cat #74. 4to wraps. 34p. toned but not brittle. Near Good. Scarce. Including "a choice series of interesting works upon the life, times and career of Napoleon".

27, [1] pp. 4to. 27, [1] pp. 4to. William Evarts Benjamin (1859 - 1940) was a prominent publisher and collector in Boston, Massachusetts. His most well-known work was the printing and extensive promotion of Edmund Clarence Stedman's A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, which his company published in 1894. Benjamin married Anne Engle Rogers, eldest daughter of Abbie Palmer (née Gifford) Rogers and Henry Huttleston Rogers, an industrialist millionaire who was a principal of Standard Oil. They had 2 children, Beatrice Benjamin Cartwright and Henry Rogers Benjamin. Printed wrappers. With note that Mr. A.J. Bowden, late of Bowden & Smith will be joining the firm.