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[Lovely 20th Century Reprint of Compton and Dry's Pictorial Atlas of St. Louis]
[Lovely 20th Century Reprint of Compton and Dry's Pictorial Atlas of St. Louis]
A lovely copy of the 1989 McGraw hardcover reprint edition of Compton and Dry's famed 1875 pictorial atlas of St. Louis, a faithful and lavishly bound facsimile of the original, far superior in construction and preparation to the fragile 1971 Hagen paperback edition or any of the ersatz print-on-demand copies floating about (and increasingly scarce to encounter in commerce).
COMPTON, Rich J. (editor and designer) : [Atlases]. PICTORIAL ST. LOUIS, The Great Metropolis of the Mississippi Valley, A Topographical Survey Drawn in Perspective A.D. 1875 by Camille N. Dry. [St. Louis, Missouri]: Todd A. McGraw, 1989. [223]pp., including 110 plates. Approximately 17 1/4" x 11." Blue-green cloth over boards with decorative gilt titles stamped to front, spine. No dustjacket, as issued. An approximately dime-sized bit of wax or similar material on the rear exterior panel, otherwise near fine.
A lovely copy of the 1989 McGraw hardcover reprint edition of Compton and Dry's famed 1875 pictorial atlas of St. Louis, a faithful and lavishly bound facsimile of the original, far superior in construction and preparation to the fragile 1971 Hagen paperback edition or any of the ersatz print-on-demand copies floating about (and increasingly scarce to encounter in commerce).
COMPTON, Rich J. (editor and designer) : [Atlases]. PICTORIAL ST. LOUIS, The Great Metropolis of the Mississippi Valley, A Topographical Survey Drawn in Perspective A.D. 1875 by Camille N. Dry. [St. Louis, Missouri]: Todd A. McGraw, 1989. [223]pp., including 110 plates. Approximately 17 1/4" x 11." Blue-green cloth over boards with decorative gilt titles stamped to front, spine. No dustjacket, as issued. An approximately dime-sized bit of wax or similar material on the rear exterior panel, otherwise near fine.