Lacon; or Many Things in Few Words; Addressed to Those Who Think

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12mo. xvi, [1], 18-493, [1] pp. Contemporary American straight-grained black morocco, covers with gilt roll border and elaborate cartouche centerpiece, gilt-lettered and tooled spine in four compartments, gilt board edges and turn-ins, a.e.g.; front joint rubbed and starting with some evidence of repair to hinge, front cover tips worn, some spotting and toning to text A circa 1836 New York binding with a distinctive Romantic cartouche centerpiece. Lacon, a collection of hectoring and pious platitudes, was a popular Victorian gift book. This 1836 New York edition is sometimes found in an embossed panel binding by Barrit & Co. of London (see Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks, no. 76 and the AAS copy). As Wolf conjectures, the books were not bound in London, but rather the publisher Charles Wells, who was also a bookbinder, imported the plates from London and bound the volumes locally. The present binding may have been done by Wells though I have been unable to trace any of the tools on this binding to his shop.PROVENANCE: Leon Schaefler (book-plate)REFERENCE: Shoemaker 36834. N° de ref. del artículo 100398

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