BRITISH TRAVELERS TO THE FEDERAL CITY, 1791-1891 by Van Devanter, Willis - 1991

Grolier Club, 1968-12-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good.

[New York]: The Grolier Club, 1968.. 1968.. Fine. - Small quarto [10-1/8 inches high by 7 inches wide], tan cloth. xiii, 55 & [3] pages plus colophon. Illustrated with 6 pages of facsimiles. Near fine. <p.Limited edition of 1,650 copies designed and printed at the Anthoensen Press, Portland, Maine.

The Grolier Club. Used - Very Good. 1968. Cloth. 4to. xiii & 62 pp & 8 plates. From a limited printing of 1650 copies. Slight shelf wear to boards. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. (Subject: Books on Books.)

New York: Grolier Club, 1968. First Edition. Very good. Small 4to. xiii, 62, [6] pp. With 8 pages of plates. Original cloth, spine gilt. Ink ownership inscription on first blank leaf. NOT ex-library! The astounding collection of the earliest English printers formed by Paul Mellon can never be rivaled today. As we read from the preface: "The fifty-five works represented here are the very heart and soul of a new phase of English language and literature." Included are fifteen publications by William Caxton (not only in Westminster but Bruges), his successor Wynkyn de Worde, the Eponymous Printer of Oxford, Theodoricus Rood of Oxford, Richard Pynson, the so-called "Schoolmaster Printer," Julian Notary, John Lettou, William de Machlinia, and Robert Copland. There are detailed collations, copy-specific information such as binding and imperfects (ubiquitous among the earliest English printed books) and provenance.

The Grolier Club, 1968. Hardcover. Good.

Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 1967. A Festschrift for the legendary bookseller H.P. Kraus. Includes, among dozens of other articles, a bibliography of books printed by Johannes Petreius and a bibliography of books illustrated by Henry Alken (89 items). 4to. Bound in publisher's cloth. FINE AND BRIGHT.

Cheyenne: The Daily Sun Steam Printing House, 1887. 995,[3]pp. Contemporary law sheep, gilt spine labels. Binding broken and worn, top two inches of backstrip lacking. Text block entirely detached from binding. Front free endpaper and titlepage loose, as are last five leaves and rear endpaper. Text block otherwise holding, pages themselves evenly tanned but quite clean. Text very good, binding poor. In a tan cloth clamshell with gilt leather spine labels. These revised statutes for Wyoming also reprint the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the United States Constitution, the Organic Act of Wyoming, and "all laws of Congress affecting the Territorial Government." These revisions were "prepared and edited" by a commission including Willis Van Devanter, who was nominated to the Supreme Court by William Howard Taft and served as a Justice from 1910 to 1937. He was also an important legal figure in Wyoming, serving as an attorney to the Stock Growers Association during the… Read More

WILLIS VAN DEVANTER (1859-1941). Van Devanter was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court for over two decades. TLS. 1pg. December 20, 1910. Cheyenne, Wyoming. A typed letter signed “Willis Van Devanter”. Just having being appointed to the Supreme Court – he was confirmed by the Senate on December 15 – Van Devanter wrote to Supreme Court Clerk James H. McKenney, asking McKenney to order his new robes. “My dear Mr. McKenney: If it conveniently can be done, I will appreciate it if one of the gentlemen in your office will procure an appropriate gown for me. My height is 5 feet 9 ½ inches. My weight is 178 pounds, and I am otherwise of usual proportions. When I became Circuit Judge a seamstress in Washington, who had made gowns for some of the Justices and Circuit Judges, made one for me, but it is worn too much to permit of further use. I will be glad to have the new one made of good material, and am writing on the supposition that I must pay for my own gown, which will be done promptly… Read More