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Sale 2708 - Lot 191

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(VIRGINIA.) James Mann. Some Old Colonial Churches in Virginia (pamphlet and accompanying portfolio of photographs). Pamphlet: [8] pages, printed in red and blank on textured paper. 8vo, 8½ x 6 inches, self-wrappers with gilt title bound with ribbon, minimal wear; uncut. With 20 photographs, each about 9½ x 7½ inches, uncaptioned on verso, each signed in the negative by H.C. Mann and numbered 1 through 19 to correspond with the text, plus one additional photograph, slightly bowed at edges but otherwise minimal wear, each individually sleeved in mylar and laid into the original cloth gilt-lettered portfolio (lacking cloth ties but otherwise just minor wear). Philadelphia: Bailey, Banks & Biddle Co., 1907 (see miniscule embossed stamp on title page)
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Each of the 19 numbered photographs is an exterior view of a colonial-era church or ruined former church in Virginia, each of them keyed to a full paragraph of description in the pamphlet. The extra photograph is of a page from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer edited in manuscript to reflect the post-revolutionary formation of the Episcopalian Church--for example, changing the subject of one prayer from Lord King George to the President of the United States.

None traced at auction. OCLC lists 4 examples of the pamphlet but without these accompanying photographs.

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