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Genre/Form: | Biographies History Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) Bookplates (Provenance) Booksellers' labels (Publishing) Inscriptions (Provenance) Insertions (Provenance) Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Corbin, Diana Fontaine. Life of Matthew Fontaine Maury. London, S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1888 (OCoLC)578808197 |
Named Person: | Matthew Fontaine Maury; Matthew Fontaine Maury |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Nannie Corbin; Wharton J Green; Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, |
OCLC Number: | 2187019 |
Notes: | "London: Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Limited, Stamford Street and Charing Cross."--Title page verso. Inscription: Wharton J. Green from his wife A.D. Green, 1893. Insertions in text: manuscript letter from Mrs. E.E. Moffitt, president of the Matthew Fontaine Maury Association, Richmond, Virginia, to Mrs. W.J. Green, Fayetteville, N.C.; folded flyer (4 pages) by The Association, including list of its officers and portrait of M.F. Maury; both pieces in envelope addressed and post stamped "Richmond, Jan. 7, 1922". Bookseller's label on front pastedown: Robert Beall, booksellers and stationer, 400 Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, D.C. Bookplate on rear pastedown: Charles R. Sanders, Jr., of Halifax County, Virginia. Contemporary publishers' binding; dark blue fine diaper grain cloth; blocked in gold and black; spine titled direct in gold; black surface coated endpapers. |
Description: | vi, 326 pages, [1] leaf of plates : frontispiece portrait ; 23 cm |
Responsibility: | Compiled by his daughter, Diana Fontaine Maury Corbin. |
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