Note 43 — PART I. AMERICANA IN LIBRARIES AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES.

J. J. Cooke Catalogue, no. 2,214; Griswold Catalogue, nos. 730, 731. The editions were fifty copies on large paper, two hundred on small. It may be worth record that Gowan, a publisher in New York, was the earliest (1846) to instigate a taste for large paper copies among American collectors, by printing in that style Furman’s edition of Denton’s Description of New York, after the manner of the English purveyors to book-fancying.