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"Duck Shooting"

Catalog no. 18.

 

Artist: S. E. Stevens

Date of painting: Between 1941 and the 1950s

 

Painted on: Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Attaché, or, Sam Slick in England. New ed. (London: Richard Bentley, 1853)

 

Binding: Bound in red leather stamped in gold; yellow coated endpapers

Binder: Unknown

Physical description: [2], xi, [1], 395, [3] p. ; 18 cm.

Other edge treatments: All edges gilt

Inscriptions, etc.: Presentation inscription, written by the author in ink on the front paste-down endpaper and dated Feb. 26, 1867. Inscription written in pencil (possibly by Stevens?) on the front free endpaper (verso) includes: “With double fore-edge paintings of Racing & Duck Shooting.”

Condition: Good with some very minor rubbing

Shelf location: Kent State University Libraries, Special Collections PR4735.H25 A84 1853

Provenance: Kent State University Libraries accession number 136648

Notes: Double fore-edge painting (see Catalog no. 17)

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