Leaflets of memory
Subtitle: an illuminated annual for MDCCCL
By: edited by Reynell Coates ...
Contributors: Coates, Reynell, 1802-1886, ed.; Sartain, John, 1808-1897.; Dreser, William, b. ca. 1820.; Sinclair, Thomas S., ca. 1805-1881.; Sherman, Conger, 1793-1867, (printer); Altemus, Joseph T., binder, fl. 1840-1850.
Publisher: E. H. Butler & Co.
Published: 1849
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens
Genres: Specimens
Other titles: Leaflets of memory.; The leaflets.
Notes: Mezzotint plates include etching.

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

Plates included in pagination.

"Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by E. H. Butler & Co., In the Office of the Clerk of the District Court of the United States"--T.p. verso

"Any compliment to the burin of Mr. Sartain, would be a work of supererogation--his reputation is as wide as the country; but we have great pleasure in acknowledging our indebtedness to Mr. Devereux, the designer, and Mr. Sinclair, the printer, of the Illuminations, which, like the embellished Binding executed by Mr. Altemus, are as novel and original in design, as they are beautiful in execution"--Advertisement, p. [11].

Plates signed as engraved by Sartain after the artists Leverseege, Westall, Wood, Read, and Schopin.

Chromolithograph plates signed: "Devereux, del.  Dreser, ft. Pr. in Colors by T.Sinclair" Chromolithographed caption title signed: "Devereux, del.  Pr. in Colors by T. Sinclair"

Includes "Sonnet to my mother" by Edgar A. Poe.

Thompson. American literary annuals, p. 134.

Faxon, F. W. Literary annuals, 472.

MASS copy: Bound in red morocco blocked in gold, with title blocked in blind on central sunken panel on front and back covers; a.e.g. With the bookplate of Ruari McLean.