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W. Elliot Woodward on Washington Medals

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W. Elliot Woodward on Washington Medals
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(Woodward, W. Elliot). MEMORIAL MEDALS. Extracted from Franklin B. Hough's Washingtoniana: Or, Memorials of the Death of George Washington... (Roxbury: Published by W. Elliot Woodward, Printed by Joel Munsell, Albany, 1865). Royal 8vo, recent black quarter calf, gilt, with brown linen sides. Finely engraved frontispiece of Washington by J.C. Buttre; title leaf; added title page; (278)-291, (1) pages; 48 medals listed. Light foxing to frontispiece; near fine in attractive recent binding. Woodward's notable (unsigned) listing of memorial medals of Washington, extracted from the second volume of Hough's monumental work on Washington and attractively bound with the original title page and engraved frontispiece of Washington. Hough's work is a masterpiece of 19th-century American printing, having been given special attention by printer Joel Munsell. Issued in a limited edition of 200 copies in royal octavo, the work is scarce in any form. Munsell was one of the finest printers in the country, and his work on historical productions such as this is widely admired. He is known to numismatists for being the printer of W. Elliot Woodward's Historical Series (as well as some of his sale catalogues) and of Henry Phillips's Historical Sketches of early American paper money. David S. Edelstein's Joel Munsell: Printer and Antiqurian (1950) lavishes particular praise on this work, describing it as one that "commends itself to the lover of fine printing." Bibliotheca Munselliana 136.