A SERIES OF ALPHABETS Designed as a Textbook for Engravers and Painters of Letters
by McClees, Archibald
Price: $500.00
- Bookseller: The Veatchs Arts of the Book
- Seller Inventory #: 14343
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: New York, 1855.
Book Description
New York, 1855.. Oblong 10 x 6 3/4. Title plus 10 plates, all engraved.Original cloth, with large title label on cover. Spine and tips worn; a couple scattered small spots or stains. Generally very good with original tissue guards. McClees specialized in bank-note engraving, working for various companies including Durand and the U. S. Bureau of Engraving. He was responsible for engraving one of the plates in Rand's The American Penman (1840) and his name is associated with two other titles concering calligraphy in 1871 and 1879. Scarce. OCLC notes similar copies at Newberry Library (pub. c 1857), Oberlin (pub. c 1885 (likely a typo), and Univ. Delaware (copy appears to be this edition but the address of pub. is 609 Broadway). There were also other editions published by Appleton and/or Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co. in 1871.
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