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<dl><dd>Salesman's canvassing book. The wording of the title varies slightly from that of the published work</dd>
<dd>Pagination: [2], 2, 20, 23, 26-27, 32, 43, 46, 49, 52, 61, 58, 85, 70, 105, 78, 107, 170, 161, 186, 177, 212, 251, 262, 253, 266, 257, 326, 357, 344, 373, 340, [2] p</dd>
<dd>Sample pages and plates (including the frontispiece portrait engraved by Ritchie); includes the broadside prospectus for the book, as well as an advertisement for the Ritchie portrait "on plate paper 19 x 24, price $1.50", with testimonials by John Hay and others. The prospectus describes 3 bindings: cloth, for $3.50; plain leather, library style, for $4.00; and "the fine edition", half turkey morocco, with cloth sides, gilt dies, and full gilt edges, for $6.00. Orders are also solicited for a German edition, "the time of delivery of the German to be fixed hereafter"; no evidence has been found that it was actually published</dd>
<dd>Monaghan, J. Lincoln</dd>
<dd>Bound in dark brown cloth, covers blind stamped as for the published book; spines of the cloth and full leather bindings on the pastedowns; 29 subscription p. at the end with 63 names listed</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Raymond, Henry J. (Henry Jarvis), 1820-1869; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Ritchie, Alexander Hay, 1822-1895; Advertising; Bookbinding; Dummies (Bookselling)</div>
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<dl><dd>Raymond, Henry J. (Henry Jarvis), 1820-1869</dd>
<dd>Hay, John, 1838-1905</dd></dl></div>
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