[AMERICAN PRINTING] -- [THOMAS, Isaiah (1749-1831)] -- REVERE, Paul (1734-1818), engraver. Bookplate of Isaiah Thomas, engraved by Paul Revere. Boston, ca 1798. Lot 364

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[AMERICAN PRINTING] -- [THOMAS, Isaiah] -- REVERE, Paul, engraver. Bookplate, ca 1798. -- Isaiah Thomas Esq. Printer. 1898. -- THOMAS, Benjamin Franklin. Memoir of Isaiah Thomas. 1874. PRESENTATION COPY.

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[AMERICAN PRINTING] -- [THOMAS, Isaiah (1749-1831)] -- REVERE, Paul (1734-1818), engraver. Bookplate of Isaiah Thomas, engraved by Paul Revere. Boston, ca 1798.

Engraved bookplate, 94 x 75 mm. Mounted to verso of the title page of The American Museum, or, Universal Magazine, published Philadelphia, by M. Carey, 1792. Provenance: American Antiquarian Society (stamp on title-page recto).

A fine example of the second bookplate engraved by Paul Revere for his friend, publisher, printer, and founder of the American Antiquarian Society Isaiah Thomas. Bingham, Paul Revere’s Engravings, plate 53; Allen, American Bookplates, 853.

[With:] [THOMAS, Isaiah]. Isaiah Thomas Esq. Printer Worcester Massachusetts President of the American Antiquarian Society and Author of the History of Printing. New York: For the Society of Iconophiles, 1898. Copper-engraved portrait on India paper mounted, overall sheet 464 x 336 mm. -- THOMAS, Benjamin Franklin. Memoir of Isaiah Thomas. Boston, 1874. 8vo. Portrait frontispiece. Original wrappers (lacking backstrap). PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed: "Editor of the Journal from the Author."

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