Between the Covers

Softcover. Octavo. Two booklets in original printed wrappers and nine inserted leaves of clippings, stitched and quarter bound together in an outer plain paper wrapper with a marbled paper spine. The outer wrapper is toned and chipped at the edges, very good. The first booklet: *A Tribute to Bayard Taylor* is a presentation copy Inscribed by I. Edwards Clarke on the dedication page (dated: “Washington D.C. Dec. 8th 1879"). In the original printed wrapper: pp. [6] 1-17 [18-20], illustrated with 3 portrait plates: a steel engraved frontispiece; halftone photograph; and wood engraving. Washington, D.C.: Mohun Brothers, 1879.

The second booklet is the Executor's sale catalogue of Taylor's library (with a few contemporary marginal annotations): *Catalogue of the Library of the late Mr. Bayard Taylor. English, German & American books ... to be sold at Auction ... November 24th and 25th, 1879 by Bangs & Co., 739 and 741 Broadway, New York.* In the original blue printed wrapper. Octavo. pp. [1] 2-26, with an engraved frontispiece portrait plate and tipped-in supplemental printed slip (item no. 503*). Inserted after p. 26 (i.e., in between the final letterpress leaf and rear printed wrap), are nine leaves with newspaper articles (memorial tributes) mounted on the rectos and verso of each sheet and on the inside of the rear wrap.

A unique presentation copy by Issac Clarke, a founding member of the Literary Society of Washington (1874) and the Cosmos Club (1878).

Item #404855