Salons Colonial and Republican, 1900, Anne Hollingworth Wharton, Antique History Prominent Colonial Women, George Clinton Fairchild Williams

Salons Colonial and Republican
By: Anne Hollingsworth Wharton
Published by: J. B. Lippincott
1900 (First Edition)

Used hardcover with no dust jacket
8.5" x 5.25"
337 pages

Condition: VERY GOOD - The yellow and gilt cloth cover does show some dirt on the surface and light wear to the corners and top and bottom of the spine. Inside, the binding is intact and the pages are clean, with the exception of a few penciled marks on the front end paper, a tiny bit of smudging on the tissue paper between the frontispiece and the title page, and a mark on the gilt top edge of the pages (see photos).

This interesting book presents a social history of the prominent women (and a few men) of the American colonies as the colonies transitioned into a republic. The author was born before the Civil War and became a historian for The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. The text is accompanied by dozens of black and white reproductions of portraits of these prominent women and men.

Another interesting point about this particular copy of the book is that it was owned by George Clinton Fairchild Williams, a former President of the Connecticut Historical Society. His very elaborate personalized bookplate can be found on the inside cover. The bookplate was designed by Sidney Smith Lawton, a well-known Massachusetts engraver who designed bookplates for such notable institutions as the Boston Public Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Harvard College Library. You can read a detailed description of the bookplate here: https://cdm.bostonathenaeum.org/digital/collection/p16057coll22/id/214/

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