[Rarebooks] NOTABLE AMERICAN COLLECTORS

[Norman Kane]

WILSON, CARROLL.  THIRTEEN AUTHOR COLLECTIONS OF THE 19th CENTURY   AND FIVE CENTURIES OF FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS.. EDITED BY JEAN C. S. WILSON & DAVID RANDALL.  N.Y., 1950.  2 VOLUMES.  Large 8vos, original cloth, former owner's ms. indexes on rear end papers, very good. Laid in is the 1948 Memoir of Wilson limited to 1300 copies and C. W. Barrett's 1951 article on Wilson in The Antiquarian Bookman.   Wilson was one of the first to pay attention to the American editions of Trollope  $50.00

HAMILTON, SINCLAIR.  EARLY AMERICAN BOOK ILLUSTRATORS AND WOOD ENGRAVERS  1670 - 1870 ... [2 VOLUMES.]
Princeton, 1958 – 1968. FIRST EDITIONS OF BOTH VOLUMES.  Quartos, original cloth, very good, with the following inserts:  A.L.S. from Hamilton on his nautical Edgartown letterhead regarding Anderson's Academy Certificate and questioning who was the Secy;  another re purchases;  1970 A.L.S. on his N.Y.C. letterhead regarding purchases;  Clipped A.A.S. obituary of Hamilton;  faded invoice with ridiculously low prices; another letter from Edgartown; and one more letter in which he mentions his health;  & an advt. for volume 2.  Profusely illustrated and indexed.  A notable collection, and a notable collector. $190.00

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