Apr 14, 2005 - Sale 2038

Sale 2038 - Lot 93

Price Realized: $ 431
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(TRANSFORMATION BOOK.) Barber, J.W.; printer and illustrator. The Pilgrim's Progress, Exhibited in a Metamorphosis, or, a Transformation of Pictures for the Entertainment and Instruction of Youth. 5 folding transformation plates with accompanying verses. [8] pages, original printed wrappers, spine split with pages rendered loose, scattered minor foxing. Hartford: Loomis & Barnes, 1819

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Barber, a draftsman, engraver, author, editor, and publisher in New Haven, engraved this work in Hartford when he was about twenty-one years old. Hamilton (entry 360) considers it his earliest work. Welch 63; Rosenbach 599 (for later 1821 edition).