[Rarebooks] F/S AAS Washburn Inscribed Address

[Garry R Austin]

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Washburn, Charles G. An Address Delivered At Worcester October 16, 1912 Before The American Antiquarian Society On The Occasion Of The One Hundreth Anniversary Of Its Foundation. Boston: Privately Printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, 1912. Only Edition. Ocatvo; pp; (5), 6-45; three quarter brown morocco and gray paper covered boards, top edge gilt, and a gilt lettered spine; Very good, slightest edge wear. Hardcover.  $150.00

Printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. This copy inscribed; "For Clarence S. Brigham librarian of the American Antiquarian Sociey with the compliments of C. G. Washburn". Washburn was a Harvard educated banker and member of Congress and prominent in massachusetts Republican politics. "Clarence Brigham was a powerful force at the American Antiquarian Society for fifty years. Hired in 1908 as the Society's third librarian, he held that position until 1930, when he became the director until he retired in 1959. These were years in which the Society's holdings and resources expanded dramatically. His obituary reports that 'Under Dr. Brigham's direction the Society's library grew from 99,000 volumes in 1908 to 600,000 in 1939, plus half a million manuscripts, maps, newspapers, pamphlets, broadsides, and prints". AAS.

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