description
a salesman's dummy
portrait frontispiece (with tissue guard)
David D. Porter engraved by H.B.Hall's Sons, New York
74 pages (variously paginated)
including Preface, Contents, General Index, text, illustrations
and charts selected from the proposed book
followed by 16 ruled pages for potential subscribers to fill in.
(no entries have been made)
original publisher's mustard colour cloth over bevelled boards
titles and decorations on pictorial front cover and back cover
blocked in gilt and brown
floral patterned endpapers
2 sample back-strips glued to front paste-down
(in Turkey Morocco and Seal Russia)
and one to rear paste-down
(in Sheep, Library style)
all page edges dyed red
size: 26 x 20 cm
shipping weight: 800 g
condition
this salesman's dummy is in Very Good or better condition
and the only faults that I can find are as follows:
corner tips and spine ends worn with a small tear to head of spine
endpapers tanned by offsetting from the back strips
tanned sections to frontispiece , tissue guard and title page (see photos)
patchy loss of glaze to the book cloth
a couple of old worm holes to front free endpaper and spine