Leaflets of memory
Subtitle: an illuminated annual for MDCCCXLVII
By: edited by Reynell Coates ...
Contributors: Coates, Reynell, 1802-1886, ed.; Sartain, John, 1808-1897.; Hirst, Henry B. 1817-1874.; Sherman, Conger, 1793-1867, (printer); Altemus, Joseph T., binder, fl. 1840-1850.; Wagner & M'Guigan.
Publisher: E. H. Butler & Co.
Published: 1846
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: Leaflets of memory :
Notes: Mezzotint plates include engraving and etching.

Added chromolithographed presentation page, t.p., list of illustrations page and caption title.

All mezzotint plates except the first included in pagination.

"Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1846, by E. H. Butler & Co., In the Office of the Clerk of the District Court of the United State"--T.p. verso.

"The labours of several of our most distinguished artists have been engaged in its embellishment; and in the illuminations will be found much that is novel in design and particularly rich in execution.  This department is indebted to the amateur pencil of Henry B. Hirst, Esq., and the professional skill of Messrs. Wagner and M'Guigan of this city"--Advertisement, p. [5].

Plates signed as engraved by Tucker and Sartain after the artists Meadows, C. H. Harlow, Lauder, Parker, Vernet and Ross.

Thompson. American literary annuals, p. 134.

Faxon, F. W. Literary annuals, 469.

MASS copy: Bound in black morocco blocked in gold with green and red leather onlays and signature on spine: "Altemus  Binder"; a.e.g. With the bookplate of Kenneth Rowe. P. 239-240 wanting.