Proceedings at the Reception and Dinner in Honor of George Peabody, Esq. of London, By the Citizens of the Old Town of Danvers, October 9, 1856 to Which Is Appended an Historical Sketch of the Peabody Institute, with the Exercises at the Laying of the Corner-Stone and at the Dedication

Boston: Henry W. Dutton & Son, Printers Nos. 33 & 35 Congress Street, 1856. First edition, large-paper issue (with leaves measuring 10-3/4 by 7-1/4 inches), in deluxe gift binding. With 2 signed in the plate very early lithographs by Winslow Homer ("View of Arch at Danversport and Residence of Hon. James D. Black" opposite p. 21 (4-1/4 x 7-7/8 inches) and "Arch Near Baptist Church, Davenport") and 5 othersvi, [2], 195pp. Largew 4to (`10-3/4 x 7-1/4 inches). Binding is quite worn on spine, cloth is chipped at tips of spine and corners, with long, narrow chip to cloth at top edge of spine (circa 1 3/4 by 1/4 inch chip), front cover and spine has mottling, and discoloration, to red cloth (at upper spine and upper corner of front cover only), front (blank) flyleaf lacking, few leaves of text, and few lithographed plates, have narrow, early stain at top or fore-edge margins only (not affecting images); a good, sound copy, with lithographic plate images very fresh and clean. Homer, Winslow. First edition, large-paper issue (with leaves measuring 10-3/4 by 7-1/4 inches), in deluxe gift binding. With 2 signed in the plate very early lithographs by Winslow Homer ("View of Arch at Danversport and Residence of Hon. James D. Black" opposite p. 21 (4-1/4 x 7-7/8 inches) and "Arch Near Baptist Church, Davenport") and 5 othersvi, [2], 195pp. Largew 4to (`10-3/4 x 7-1/4 inches). Winslow Homer (1836-1910) was twenty years old when these lithographs appeared in print; he was apprenticed to lithographer John H. Bufford, in Boston, at age eighteen (in 1855).

Prints seven early lithographs by Winslow Homer (two of which are signed within the plate, with Winslow Homer's initials), large-paper issue, as follows:
1. 'View of Arch at Danversport and Residence Hon. James D. Black' (opposite p. 21; signed with Homer's initials within the plate) [4 1/4 x 7 7/8 inches (10.8 x 20.0 cm)]
2. 'Lexington Battle Monument, S. Danvers with Residence of Hon. R. S. Daniels' (opposite p. 29) [4 1/8 x 6 9/16 inches (10.5 x 16.7 cm)]
3. 'Arch Erected by the Webster Club' (opposite p. 47) [6 5/8 x 4 3/8 inches (16.8 x 11.1 cm)]
4. 'Arch Near Baptist Church, Danvers Port' (opposite p. 89; signed with Homer's initials within the plate) [4 5/16 x 7 3/16 inches (11.0 x 18.3 cm)]
5. 'Main St. S. Danvers Taken from F. Dane's Warehouse' (opposite p. 109) [4 1/8 x 6 5/8 inches (10.5 x 16.8 cm)]
6. 'Arch on Holten St. Residence of Abel Procter Esq. S. Danvers' (opposite p. 153) [3 5/16 x 7 inches (8.4 x 17.8 cm)]
7. 'Lowell St. and Congretl. Church, S. Danvers' (opposite p. 187) [4 3/16 x 7 inches (10.6 x 17.8 cm)]
[c.f. Tony Harrison, The Winslow Homer Website: winslow-homer.org].
The tinted lithographed plates are finely printed on high-quality, heavy stock paper, with large margins (unprinted tissue-guards present), and exhibit a more subtle tonal quality than the plates in the ordinary-paper issue. Tatham, 'Winslow Homer and the Illustrated Book,' pp.27-33