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SCNHRB and CHMRB each have incomplete sets.
SCNHRB has Bd. 4 (39088006769004), only, with plates 1-100 and their accompanying descriptions in German, French, English, and Italian.
SCNHRB copy of Bd. 4 has uncolored illustrations. One of the leaves of text for Bd. 4, no. 93 is misbound following the plate for Bd. 4, no. 92.
SCNHRB copy of Bd. 4 has stamp on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum, Jul. 30, 1932; accession no.: 291593; pencil ms. note on t.p.: "Purchased Louise H. Richmond."
SCNHRB copy of Bd. 4 has a modern blue buckram library binding with gilt-lettered spine, gray endpapers, and red sprinkled edges; some of the leaves have apparent slight water damage to their edges.
CHMRB has portions of Bd. 4, Bd. 6, Bd. 8, and Bd. 9, only; Bd. 8 and Bd. 9 are bound together.
CHMRB copy has hand-colored illustrations.
CHMRB copy has the following plates and text wanting: Bd. 4, plates 15, 20, 30, 45, and both plates and text for 51-100[?]; Bd. 6, plates 69, 74, 77, 79, 86, 98, and both plates and text for 1-50[?]; Bd. 8, title leaf, plates 56, 75, 85, 87, 89, and both plates and text for 1-50[?]; Bd. 9, both plates and text for 51-100[?]. (The actual number of plates per volume--and even the total number of volumes--has not been definitely determined, although it appears that each Bd. probably had plates and accompanying textual descriptions numbered 1 through 100).
CHMRB copy has bookplate: Purchased by the Mary Stuart Book Fund ... Cooper Union Library. Accession nos.: Bd. 4, 17321; Bd. 6, 17322; Bd. 8-9, 17323.
CHMRB copy has later burgundy half-cloth bindings with marbled paper boards and gilt-lettered spines; with binder's stamp: Bound by Bailer Bros., N.Y.
