webster genealogy compiled printed presentation (3 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Paperback. Wraps half title and last prelims loose, but present. Dampstain to left edge of signatures text not affected]. Fifteen leaves printed on rectos only, five vignette illustrations of fable, but lacking the one showing Webster at work.

Zustand: Wrappers. 16 leaves printed recto only [final leaf blank]. 4to. 16 leaves printed recto only [final leaf blank]. 4to.

Folio, 15 leaves printed on the rectos only, engraved frontispiece portrait of the lexicographer after the painting by Samuel F.B. Morse, engraved title-page of A Dictionary of the English Language with a vignette showing Webster at work in his library (note: these two engravings are not in all copies of the Genealogy); 5 vignette illustrations of fables taken from early American editions of Webster's Spellers; original plain gray paper wrappers, some splitting along top edge and spine, but generally very good. The first book by the eleven-year-old great-grandson of Noah Webster, which he printed himself at his home in Brooklyn in an edition of 250 copies. The original edition of the Genealogy, published by Webster himself in octavo format and without illustrations, appeared in 1836. BAL 6140; Skeel 752.