Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum
An Essex Institute bookplate and former holdings mark *493.1 U58 are present. A manuscript accession note records the gift of Mrs. Myra J. Tyler on June 29, 1972. The copy is now held by the Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum.
Binding Description
Later green cloth binding with an original brown publisher’s-cloth circular panel inset into the front board. The retained panel preserves the gilt sphinx and worn gilt triangular decoration around the embossed circle. Wells Bindery Inc., Waltham, Massachusetts, stamped the rear pastedown in December 1972.
Provenance
An Essex Institute bookplate and former holdings mark *493.1 U58 are present. A manuscript accession note records the gift of Mrs. Myra J. Tyler on June 29, 1972. The copy is now held by the Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum.
Provenance Chain
- Unrecorded earlier ownership
- Mrs. Myra J. Tyler — gift recorded June 29, 1972
- Essex Institute
- Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum
Copy Notes
- The chromolithographic title carries the red block-capital SECOND EDITION statement.
- A newspaper clipping concerning the Rosetta Stone is mounted at the rear.
Evidence and Documentation
Phillips Library copy photographs and catalog record p128682; shelfmark PJ1531 .R3 1859
Photographs of S052
Images: Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum.
