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The imperial highway : or, the road to fortune and happiness, with biographies of self-made men. ... / by Jerome Paine Bates.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Zinman 87
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bates, Jerome Paine, 1837-1915.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conduct of life.
- Dummies (Bookselling)--Specimens.
- Dummies (Bookselling).
- Booksellers and bookselling--Colportage, subscription trade, etc.
- Booksellers and bookselling.
- Bookbinding--Specimens.
- Bookbinding.
- Genre:
- 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:
- Chicago : G.W. Borland & Co., 1883.
- Notes:
- Canvassing book consisting of specimen leaves and illustrations; half broadside prospectus; preprinted subscription order leaves.
- Binding: leather binding; half-leather cover sample mounted to rear pastedown, with matching leather spine sample hinged at left edge. Cloth cover sample hinged to rear pastedown, with matching cloth spine sample hinged to left edge.
- Copyright 1881 by George W. Borland & Co.
- Cited in:
- Arbour, K. Canvassing books, 87
- OCLC:
- 912025561
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