Object Description
Per David P. Becker (April 2010):
(Philadelphia: J. T. Bowen, 1848, 1849, 1850) Three volumes: (1) iv, 333 pp., plus plates; (2) xvii pp., pp. [9]-290, plus plates; (3) iv pp., pp. [17]-392; original publisher’s blind- and gilt-stamped black morocco.
Refs. Art at Colby: Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Colby College Museum of Art (Waterville [ME]: Colby College Museum of Art, 2009), pp. 72-75.
This is the second edition of this title; the first edition in larger, “folio” format was published, also in Philadelphia, from 1836-1844. This edition was reduced to smaller, “octavo” format. The illustrations in this edition are signed only by the lithographer, J.T. Bowen; the first edition specifies the contributions of King as the painter of more than 100 of the painted portrait models (one of which is at Colby College Museum of Art).
