Life and Writings of Thomas Paine
New York: Vincent Parke and Company [1908], 1908. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 10 vol. 8vo. For pagination, please inquire. Grey cloth with a paper label printed in orange and black on each spine; top edges gilt. Deckled fore and bottom edges. Most volumes with a red silk ribbon bookmark. Volume one with a mounted frontispiece surrounded by a colorful border, a printed tissue guard, and the limitation page with the same colorful decorative border. Volume one with three additional plates; volumes two through five with a color frontispiece and three additional plates; volumes six and seven with a color frontispiece and two plates; volumes eight and nine with a color frontispiece and three plates; volume ten with a color frontispiece and two plates, and then a series of plates, a facsimile of a portion of Paine's autobiography. Completing the title page: "Containing a Biography by Thomas Clio Rickman and Appreciations by Leslie Stephen, Lord Erskine, Paul Desjardins, Robert G. Ingersoll, Elbert Hubbard and Marilla M. Ricker". Edited and annotated by Daniel Edwin Wheeler. The Special De Luxe Independence Edition of the Centenary Issue of the writings of Thomas Paine, five hundred numbered copies printed, this is copy number 363, signed by the editor on the limitation page, with a facsimile of Paine's signature on the limitation page and a bust blindstamped on the limitation page. Very Good or better. Item #000016542
The paper labels toned, light wear to the crowns of the spines. A discoloration to the front board of volume nine. Volume one missing its red silk ribbon bookmark.
Price: $500.00