(ILLINOIS) John Kitto The Gallery of Scripture Engravings Hi

Sale 2580 - Lot 141

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(ILLINOIS.) John Kitto. The Gallery of Scripture Engravings, Historical and Landscape, Printed in Oil Colors. 10 chromolithograph plates. [7]-216 pages. 4to, publisher's gilt cloth, moderate wear; minor foxing and wear; all edges gilt; early owner's pencil name on from free endpaper. Chicago: H.C. Foster, 1856

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Later printing of a work first published in London in 1846. It would appear to be the first book published with color illustrations in Chicago. Chicago Ante-Fire Imprints (206) lists no earlier works with colored plates, and no other works printed by the mysterious H.C. Foster. He was apparently the same H.C. Foster who published "An Excursion among the Poets." in Richmond, VA in 1853.