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Engraving plates from Mark Twain

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Item Details

Description

Heading: (Twain, Mark)
Author: Smedley, William Thomas
Title: Six steel engraving plates - four from Mark Twain's The Gilded Age, Vol. 1
Place Published: [n.p.]
Publisher:
Date Published: [c.1890s]
Description:

6 steel engraving plates. 16x11 cm (6¼x4¼").

Four of the plates were used for illustrating a Harper & Bros. edition of Mark Twain's The Gilded Age, including three illustrations by W.T. Smedley, and a frontispiece portrait of Twain. Included as well is a plate labeled: "Equator Vol. II frontis. An Indian Railway Station," by an unknown artist, and a plate for an illustration of of a man with a woman in the background, by an unknown artist. Five of the plates include illustrations made from them.

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Some general wear and soiling; very good.

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Engraving plates from Mark Twain

Name: Engraving plates from Mark Twain
SKU: 113472715
Price: 600 USD
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