The book of American interiors, prepared by Charles Wyllys Elliott from existing houses; with preliminary essays and letterpress descriptions; illustrated in heliotype (1876)
Elliott, Charles Wyllys, 1817-1883 · Boston, J.R. Osgood and Co. · leaf 71
and grotesqueness. These early examples of New England books may interest thecurious; and it may be well to compare them with the perfect ex-amples of book-making now presented to us by the Messrs. Osgoodand Company of Boston, Harpers, Appletons, Scribners, and Sheldonsof New York, Lippincott and… … they were, were in many cases carefully guarded in a locker or othersafe place, and they were too few in most cases to have a room set THE LIBRARY. 65 apart for them. I find in the Presidents room at Cambridge a quaintpiece of furniture described to me as the writing-desk of John Eliotthe Apostle;…
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