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Louis Gottschalk : Lafayette in America 1777 - 1783 [First Bicentennial Edition: Signed by Both the Author and the Craftsman in Charge of the Binding of This Copy]

L'Esprit de Lafayette Society, 1976

Numbered Edition, of this being BE085. Fine condition genuine topgrain buffalo leather especially tanned from matched hides with gilt upper page edges, gilt front and rear cover decorations and gilt spine lettering. Endsheets are red moire fabric. Also includes a bound-into-the-volume permanent red, white, and blue silk ribbon page marker. This is the First Bicentennial Edition in honor of the bicentennial anniversary of the establishment of the United States of America. Signed by both the author on the title page and also by the craftsman in charge of the binding via a tipped in Certification of First Edition, which states, to wit: "Certification of First Edition - This certifies that this volume of Lafayette in America by Louis Gottschalk was produced as part of the single private printing and binding of this limited first edition, of which two hundred and ninety-four random copies were reserved for presentation by the publisher, L'Esprit de Lafayette Society to the originally selected libraries, museums and United States citizens in the year 1976. It is hand bound in genuine topgrain buffalo leather especially tanned by Cromwell from matched hides assembled expressly for this edition; printed on Permanent Archive Text developed solely for this work to exceed the standards of the United States National Historical Publications and Records Commission and to resist deterioration for a minimum of two hundred years, with silk appointments and ornamentation on head, spine and covers in pure 24-karat gold. The six bound-in plates one Woodbine enamel are direct lithographs of the original Revolutionary War maps." Binding of this copy was completed before March 24, 1976. Signed by Author(s)., Fine

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