FIRE INSURANCE HOUSE MARKS OF THE UNITED STATES by George Cuthbert Gillespie and Stevenson Hockley Walsh - 1915

Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8 1/4 x 11 in. Plate pages are not paginated (there are 24), 16 pgs of text. Limited edition of one hundred, this is marked 15. The limitation page states that after the printing the plates were destroyed. Ivory and brown paper boards with paper title label. Plates are handsome B&W photographic images of the plaques, one or two to a pg. Condition is VERY GOOD ; corners and spine ends worn, spine tail a bit torn. Binding tight and text spotless. Exceedingly scarce. Dedicated to Alexander Wilson Wister, "A Veteran Collector of Fire Insurance House Marks." Rare. RGR.