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Six nights with the Washingtonians : and other temperance tales / by T.S. Arthur.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Zinman 44
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay), 1809-1885.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Temperance--Fiction.
- Temperance.
- Dummies (Bookselling)--Specimens.
- Dummies (Bookselling).
- Booksellers and bookselling--Colportage, subscription trade, etc.
- Booksellers and bookselling.
- Bookbinding--Specimens.
- Bookbinding.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Specimens.
- Prospectuses.
- Subscription lists (Publishing)
- Penn Provenance:
- Zinman, Michael (donor) (Canvassing Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- [Canvassing book].
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : T.B. Peterson & Brothers, [1871]
- Notes:
- Canvassing book consisting of specimen leaves and illustrations; full broadside prospectus; lined subscription order leaves.
- Binding: cloth binding, with leather sample mounted to back pastedown. Two spine samples, one cloth and one leather, mounted to front pastedown; one leather spine sample pasted to rear free endpaper.
- Copyright 1871 by T.B. Peterson and Brothers.
- Local Notes:
- Zinman 44 has all subscription order leaves but the first excised. Front free endpaper inscribed "'Sic facit'/ Sarah Dowling." Broadside prospectus inscribed "Charles Hudson." Pencil handwriting exercises on first subscription page.
- Cited in:
- Arbour, K. Canvassing books, 44
- OCLC:
- 910778092
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