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WITH 6 ORIGINIAL WRAPPERS SIGNED BY SAMUEL COLT
(INDIANS.) McKenney, Thomas; and Hall, James. History of the Indian Tribes of North America. 120 hand-colored lithographed plates, map, 17 pages of subscriber facsimile signatures. 3 volumes. Folio, later 1/ 2 morocco, a bit worn at edges; various degrees of foxing, offsetting and staining, a few repaired edge tears, one tear to a text leaf with loss (volume 3, page 12 1/ 122), but generally in decent condition; cloth boxes. With the original front wrappers to numbers 1-4, 7 and 9 (and a rear wrapper listing the agents for the set by State from an unidentified number) laid in, the front wrappers each signed by Samuel Colt. Philadelphia, [1836-44]
- Notes: first edition. samuel colt's copy. Colt is listed as a subscriber on the last page of subscriber signatures. It is an extremely unusual set to find with any of the surviving wrappers from the original parts, let alone those signed by a man whose invention impacted Indian fighting in the West. As usual, this set contains imprints from various publishers, including Greenough and Rice & Clark. Of note is the fact that the wrapper from part one carries a Biddle imprint, though the title-page in volume one contains the Greenough 1838 imprint. Although the BAL states of the titles and plates carry no significant indication of priority, this set contains state C of the title to volume 1, state B of the title to volume 2 and state A of the title to volume 3. It also contains BAL state D of the War Dance plate and state F of the Red Jacket plate. The description of the War Dance plate is the second printing, containing the footnote. This text was sent to the subscribers in a later part with the instructions to destroy the inaccurate first printing. In this copy, the Chon-Man-I plate is bound out of order, and is located as the frontispiece to volume 3. "Mostly the work of King, these are the most colorful portraits of Indians ever executed. Originally issued in twenty parts [in nineteen]; but few sets were retained in that impractical form. The original oil paintings of which the plates were copies were all destroyed in the 1865 Smithsonian fire"--Howes M129; Reese, American Color Plate Books 24; BAL 6934.
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