Work of Masterful American Chromolithographic Book Designer

(COLOR PRINTING--AMERICAN) MAPLESON, T.W. Gwilt.  PEARLS OF AMERICAN POETRY.                

New York: Wiley and Putnam, n.d. (circa 1853). Small 4to. Publisher's morocco binding, all edges gilt.  28 leaves on boards. First edition.  [Bennett, page 71].

Mapleson was America's finest chromolithographic book designer, the only American on the same artistic level as Henry Noel Humphreys and Owen Jones.  This book, printed by A. Brett and T. Sinclair, is one of his most successful works and a high spot in American color printing.  This copy is in the publisher's deluxe binding, full morocco with beveled edges.  The book has been professionally rebacked using the original spine as an overlay and there is some slight edge-wear.  The blank endpapers are foxed as usual, else a very good copy.

$1,500.00