1849 Book of Pearls; A Choice Garland Gift Book - Twenty Plates

Description: The Book of Pearls: A Choice Garland of Prose, Poetry, and Art. Containing Twenty Finely Executed Steel Engravings. New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1849. Ex-library: Nonkanahwa, a sanitarium in the Catskills. A complete work, beautiful embossed tan calf leather binding, 280pp, 9.25 x 6.25", 8vo. In fair condition. Boards are scuffed at edges & worn/bumped at corners. General soiling to gilt deco on boards, but overall they are bright and clean. Head and tail of spine lacking - binding exposed with moderate loss to spine which has inhibited gilt lettering. Hinges fragile. Nonkanahwa bookplate found on decorated front paste-down. Previous gift inscription has been scratched out on decorated front end-page. Light toning and foxing throughout text-block, especially to plates and tissue guards. All plates present, however, two are on different pages than table of contents suggests; i.e. "The Magic Mirror" (#11) is found across from p 140, not p 135 & "The Greek Patriot" (#16) is found across from p 228, not p 226. Some instances of finger-soiling present. Binding is intact. Please see photos. In terms of book production, "The Book of Pearls" is considered the high end of the scale. It features decorated endpapers, gilt edges, extra heavy paper, fine printing, and carefully selected engravings (note in particular Thomas Phillibrown's engraving of the painted Lord Byron by Thomas Phillips). This gift book's most notable feature, however, is it's densely gilt-stamped binding depicting cherubs, garlands, urns, fountains of pearls, and emblazoned scroll work. Beautiful and fine book production of mid 19th-century. Andrew Green Foord (1875-1950) was born in Brooklyn, NY, the son of John Foord, the editor of "The Times" from 1875-83; and was named for his father's friend Andrew Green, a principal advocate for Central Park in NYC. Following an apprenticeship at Mount Sinai Hospital, Dr. Foord founded in 1906 his noted sanitarium "Nonkonahwa" in the Catskill Mountains. There for 35 years, until his retirement in 1941, he ministered to those worn down by the stress of modern life. Foord's forte as a physician was his ability not simply to alleviate and patch but to restore. If the patient would only give him time, he was often able to bring back to even greater usefulness men and women who had almost lost hope. Many hard-working and distinguished men have looked back to their weeks or months under his experienced care as a turning point in their lives, from which not only physical but spiritual health flowed into them. Some important names who appeared on the register included: James Thurber, O. Henry (William Sydney Porter), Harold Ross and E.B. White. Ford also appeared in photos with St. Clair McKelway, Dorothy Parker, Wolcott Gibbs, Russell Maloney and Frank Case. COLI1849AHIB11/23 - HK941

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