Feb 26, 2004 - Sale 1998

Sale 1998 - Lot 224

Price Realized: $ 1,380
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Life in Philadelphia. Group of 5 hand-colored engraved plates, each approximately 9x11 inches, plus one at 11x15 inches, with some variation in the size of margins; condition generally fine, one with reinforcements on verso, and one printed on the verso of an older print. London, circa 1830-35

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Two plates from the publishing house of W. H. Isaacs, and two from Treagar. These British versions of Life in Philadelphia are more racist than their American counterparts issued previously.