Joseph Y. Jeanes / Delaware Copy A
An 1859 second-edition copy at the University of Delaware in original green cloth, bearing Joseph Y. Jeanes’s Philadelphia bookplate.
Binding Description
Original green publisher’s cloth with a gilt sphinx, brown-stamped circular bands, border, and corner ornaments. The spine has gilt lettering and brown-stamped motifs.
Provenance Chain
Joseph Y. Jeanes, Philadelphia — bookplate, no. 2008 → University of Delaware Special Collections — date and source of acquisition not yet established
Provenance
The front pastedown bears Joseph Y. Jeanes’s Philadelphia bookplate, with manuscript number 2008. A separate manuscript note laid over the title page records an 1859 copyright entry naming Hale, Jones, and Morton. The route from Jeanes’s library to Delaware is not yet documented.
Copy Notes
- The chromolithographic title states “SECOND EDITION.”
- The loose manuscript copyright-entry note is recorded separately from the bookplate; it does not establish Jeanes’s acquisition date.
Evidence and Documentation
University of Delaware Special Collections copy A photographs supplied by Curtis Small, October 2026; Delaware catalogue record 991016210849707701. University of Delaware catalogue ↗
People in This Copy
Photographs of S064
Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press, Newark, Delaware.
