C W L Schell (2 results)

American first edition (per matching dates upon title and copyright pages). 103 pages. Hardcover; H 23cm x L 17cm. Dark brown cloth with beveled edges, bright gilt lettering and stamped decoration upon spine and front board, spine ends frayed, some rubbing to rear board with light soiling to front board, bumped corners. All edges gilt; dark brown endpapers. Black marker obscures past owner's narrow address label which is affixed over an older bookplate at top left of front pastedown. B/w frontispiece illustration of "Fair Rosamond" by Mary Hallock Foote with tissue guard; other full-page and inset b/w illustrations by F.T. Merrill, T. Moran, W.L. Sheppard, F.B. Schell, G. Perkins, E.H. Garrett, J.M. Cameron, W.H. Low, A. Fredericks, Martha Ritchie Simpson, J.W. Rix, F. Dielman, A.C. Warren, W.H. Gibson [William Hamilton Gibson, 1850-1896], J.F. Murphy, A.R. Waud, J.A. Brown, F. Hopkinson Smith, et al. All illustrations drawn and engraved under the supervision of A.V.S. Anthony. A very good copy.…

Condition: very good. Den Haag : Staatsbedrijf der Posterijen, Telegrafie en Telefonie, 1954. Orig. cloth binding. xx,528 pp. With 1 colored & 111 b/w illustrations. (Geschiedkundige Uitgaven van het Staatsbedrijf der Posterijen, Telegrafie en Telefonie, 5). Library stamps. Condition : very good copy. Keywords : HISTORY, postal history.…