May 11, 2023 10:00 EST

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  Lot 238
 

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[AMERICAN REVOLUTION]
[SNOWDEN, RICHARD]. History of the American Revolution in Scripture Style...
Frederick County, Maryland: Matthias Bartgis, 1823. Later edition, but the first with the remarkable plate. Contemporary American binding of mottled calf, black leather spine label. 6 1/2 x 3 7/8 inches (16.5 x 9.5 cm); 300 pp., frontispiece portrait of Washington. Binding rubbed and worn but essentially sound, front endpaper creased, modern name in ink on front pastedown, small marginal loss and tear to the frontispiece, toning throughout as usual..

Printed at the Pleasant Dale Paper Mill, this edition is best known for the curious frontispiece of Washington, who is shown with a profoundly bulbous nose worthy of W.C. Fields. Bartgis, who was a pioneering Maryland printer, became a newspaper publisher of some note. He had a bookbinding shop (from which the binding on the present copy may well have come, as we note other copies bound thus), and had a paper mill on the Tuscarora in Frederick County, Maryland, which supplied paper for his operations.

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[AMERICAN REVOLUTION]
[SNOWDEN, RICHARD]. History of the American Revolution in Scripture Style...
Frederick County, Maryland: Matthias Bartgis, 1823. Later edition, but the first with the remarkable plate. Contemporary American binding of mottled calf, black leather spine label. 6 1/2 x 3 7/8 inches (16.5 x 9.5 cm); 300 pp., frontispiece portrait of Washington. Binding rubbed and worn but essentially sound, front endpaper creased, modern name in ink on front pastedown, small marginal loss and tear to the frontispiece, toning throughout as usual..

Printed at the Pleasant Dale Paper Mill, this edition is best known for the curious frontispiece of Washington, who is shown with a profoundly bulbous nose worthy of W.C. Fields. Bartgis, who was a pioneering Maryland printer, became a newspaper publisher of some note. He had a bookbinding shop (from which the binding on the present copy may well have come, as we note other copies bound thus), and had a paper mill on the Tuscarora in Frederick County, Maryland, which supplied paper for his operations.

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