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Physical description:
[2], xvii, [3], 360 pages illustrations 20 cm
Type:
Patterns
Date:
1842
Notes:
A leaf of publisher's advertisements is inserted before the half-title (pages [1]-[2], 1st group)
Errata on page [1] (3rd group)
Preface signed (page viii): F. S.
Printer on verso of title page: "London: Richards, St. Martin's Lane"
CHMRB copy 39088015280860 has autograph of a former owner on half-title: F.[?] A. Thorne, Nov. 23rd, '46 [probably 1846]; the initials are repeated on the front-free endpaper
CHMRB copy has bookplate: Ex libris Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration, given by Cooper Union Library, in October 23, 1935. Accession number 15253
CHMRB copy has a later black buckram binding with brown booktape on the spine. The original gilt- and blind-stamped brown embossed cloth covers have been mounted on top of the black buckram. Some of the leaves have become detached and are laid in
