Philadelphia: King & Baird, Printers, 1869.
Price: $650.00
Softcover. First edition. Octavo. 36pp., with a folded facsimile. Printed wrappers, untrimmed. Inscribed by the author to Joseph Sabin, Esq. in neat ink on the half-title page. Chipping to the edges of the wraps, somewhat darkened and separated at the spine, with age-toning to the text pages, else very good. An apt association between Jones, vice president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and author of a monograph on Andrew Bradford, Philadelphia's "second" most famous printer, and Joseph Sabin (1821-81), America's best known bibliophile and father of Americana. Sabin's *Bibliotheca Americana a Dictionary of Books relating to America from its Discovery to the Present Time*, begun in 1868 and completed in 1936, is a comprehensive catalog of "every book in every language which relates to, or has the slightest reference to America."
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