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5 1/2 inches x 8 in., frontispiece: Pioneers; title-page with design; preface; introduction; table of contents; list of illustrations; [viii], pp, 1-363; printed on a coated paper, and with reproductions of drawings, and other illustrations; plain endpapers. Dark green cloth with gilt design, titling in green on gold, gilt titling on the front cover, with designs stamped in black of tree, gun, powder horn, bag. This is an ex-library copy, which shows these signs of being cleaned up a bit: call number partly removed from the spine, number erased from the copyright page, paper slip removed from the back paste-down; the lower right corner area of the back paste-down shows some repaired tears to the paper, fore-edge margins of pp. 305-308, show a 1/4 inch split to the paper; general, light, age-related tanning to page margins. From one of Ernest Wessen's "Midland Notes": "Though the old doctor set out to write a serious work on local history, the sportsman in him caused him to stray afield. The chapter headed "Early Settlements" soon wanders into a discussion of field-dogs, and over half of it is devoted to that subject. The chapter on "Ohio Professions" becomes a series of hunting anecdotes, etc., etc.An important book that has become very scarce.". Coyle, Ohio Authors (1962); p. 344. Seller Inventory # ABE-868299270
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