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SIDNEY LAWTON SMITH: DESIGNER, ETCHER, ENGRAVER

Smith, Amy and Gardner Teall: SIDNEY LAWTON SMITH: DESIGNER, ETCHER, ENGRAVER With Extracts from his Diary and a Check-list of his Bookplates. PRINTED BY D. B. UPDIKE AT THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS, LIMITED TO 200 COPIES. Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1931. Limited edition. 136 pages. Portrait frontis, tissue guard. 30 engravings and etchings. Top edges gilt, page edges uncut. 31 illustrations. Sidney Lawton Smith was a well-known bookplate designer and engraver based in Boston. Very Good with no jacket. Bookplate of Mary Katherine Williams on front pastedown, with a penciled place and date beneath it. Boards soiled, aged. Light soil on reverse of half-title and reverse of second free endpaper. Offsetting to pages facing engravings. Tissue guard creased and lightly offset from frontis. Spine lightly sunned.

$225.00