[Rarebooks] pre-fire Chicago imprint; American Judaica

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AMERICAN JUDAICA

  pre-fire Chicago imprint

  color printing in America

1868



Paine (T. O.) = Timothy Otis Paine, (1824-1895)         SOLOMON'S 
TEMPLE;...with Twenty-One Plates of Sixty-six Figures / accurately 
copied from drawings made by the author.  Chicago: E. B. Myers and 
Chandler, 1868. = cancel title with this imprint.

[Engraved title: THE TABERNACLE OF GOD IS WITH MEN...]


4to, original brown-maroon [chocolate?] pebbled cloth, lettering in 
gilt, quadruple box rules on the covers; chocolate brown endpapers, 
99pp.  27 cm.

Of the plates, four are in color:

Tabernacle Court
Tabernacle
Interior of Tabernacle
High Priest and Candlestick

First edition in fact, the George Phinney sheets from 1861, with a 
cancel title.

Later editions:         Boston: Houghton & Mifflin, 1885 and again in 1886


The publishing firm specialized in law and theology books of sorts; 
the University of the Pacific has a 1867 E.B. Myers and Chandler book 
inscribed by Ralph Waldo Emerson to John Muir.  The first book from 
Myers and Chandler appeared  in 1858; it was over after 1868 and 54 
titles [ = 54 entries in OCLC, but not this book];  the Chicago Fire 
was on October 9, 1871, but apparently the firm had already ended, 
for no publications from it are recorded in OCLC for 1869 or 1870.

As it happens, Myers and Chandler published books of Swedenborgian 
interest, indirectly accounting, probably, for the presence of our 
book in the Library of the Swedenborgian Church of San Francisco 
[noted California Arts and Crafts building designed by Bernard 
Maybeck, with two stained glass windows by Bruce Porter],  a portion 
of which we have just acquired (and re-sold, retaining only this one 
book).  Every other book gave inherit evidence of ownership by the 
Church, not in itself an unhappy feature. But this book remained unmarked.

Scarce, not in OCLC, or at Harvard, Yale, LC, or in the UC 
system.  The Newberry Library reports only the 1885 edition of 
Paine.   Strangely, the University of Chicago on-line catalogue 
records no holdings at all for Timothy Otis Paine.  The Jewish 
Theological Seminary [searched via Aleph] has only the 1885 and 1886 
editions.  The Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem 
has only the London edition from  Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & 
Rivington, 1886.


  A superb copy in the original binding.

$2500.00




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