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Willey, Margaret; Solomon, Heather M [Illustrator]Biblio.com

Clever Beatrice: An Upper Peninsula Conte

WILLARD, S (Solomon, 1783-1861); SMILLIE, James (1807-1885)Biblio.com

American Revolution Plans and Sections of the Obelisk on Bunker's Hill with the Details of Experiments Made in Quarrying the Granite Stone; offered with: A Panoramic View from Bunker Hill Monument

1861BB2214Boston: printed by Samuel N. Dickinson Washington Street / Published by Luther Stevens 186 Washington Street 1861. Two works documenting the first public obelisk in the United States and the technology developed to create it. First and only Edition of the Willard quite scarce. Royal 8vo 340 x 253 mm: 56-311pp with 14 inserted leaves including frontispiece of plates one folding. Original drab boards brown muslin spine upper cover with publisher's paper title label ruled and printed in black. Inscribed on front fly-leaf in pencil: "Charles W. Pearson August 13 185" A handsome survival tightly bound hinges neatly reinforced with Japanese tissue pages and plates generally clean and free of foxing with occasional smudges and stains. American Imprints 43-5291; Hitchcock 1409. The second work by Smillie: Slim demy 8vo 223 x 175mm: 16pp with frontispiece view of the monument engraved by E. A. Fowle from a drawing by R. P. Mallory seven-part accordion-fold panoramic view engraved for Drakes History of Boston of 160 important sites and institutions pp 2-12 provide "A key to the engraving" and woodcut in text. Publisher's green paper-covered boards printed in black rebacked with black cloth spine mimicking the original. End sheets and first page of text tanned from binder's glue else pages and plates including folding panorama fresh bright and free of foxing. Also issued in 1848 by Redding & Co. 8 State Street Boston in brown cloth decorated in blind and gilt. Stokes & Haskell P.1855—G-37. Abbey Life 573 for Mallory's panorama issued by Redding. The Battle of Bunker Hill actually was fought on Breed's Hill site of the Willard's Bunker Hill Monument on June 17 1775. The first monument commemorating the major opening battle of the American Revolution was an 18-foot wooden pillar with gilt urn erected in 1794 by King Solomon's Lodge of Masons to honor the fallen patriot and mason Major-General Dr. Joseph Warren who was killed during the battle's third and final assault. From 1824 to 1842 Willard designed and built the present monument a 221-foot tall granite obelisk for which he also developed the granite quarry in Quincy Massachusetts that provided stone. The first railroad in the country was built to transport granite from that quarry to the waterfront where it was taken by boat to Charlestown and hauled to the building site. N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition carefully preserved in archival removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. [printed by Samuel N. Dickinson, Washington Street] / Published by Luther Stevens, 186 Washington Street unknown

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