Handbook of the New Library of Congress in Washington
Softcover
1897 · Boston
by Small, Herbert
Boston: Curtis & Cameron, 1897. Softcover. Text block clean and tight, but front cover detached and spine missing two pieces at top and bottom. Cream paper wraps with border decoration and black and red lettering; 128 pp. plus 24 pp. advertising with occasional bw illustrations. Compiled by Herbert Small, with essays on the architecture, sculpture and painting by Charles Caffin and on the function of a national library by Ainsworth R. Spofford; fully illustrated with bw illustrations. (Inventory #: 113953)