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Author: Edmunds A.C.
Title: Pen Sketches of Nebraskans with Photographs
Place Published: Lincoln, Nebraska
Publisher:R. & J. Wilbur, Stationers, Omaha
Date Published: 1871
Description: 512 pp. With 18 (of 20) mounted original albumen photographs; tissue guards. 19.1x12.7 cm (7½x5"), original green cloth stamped in gilt & black, beveled edges. First Edition.The first book illustrated with photographs to be published in Nebraska. The photographs are by Edric L. Eaton, and one of them is a portrait of him (a pencil inscription at front indicates this latter illustration is from another copy). Some of the photographs are single portraits, others contain multiple miniature portraits. The frontispiece features a portrait of railroad entrepreneur George Francis Train surrounded by scenes featuring the Union Pacific Railroad, the transcontinental telegraph, a bird's-eye view of Omaha, the State University at Lincoln, etc. This state of the frontispiece does not have two miniature portraits in the left hand border; Howes gives no priority. Ink ownership inscription on front flyleaf of Sylvester Chesley, Clarksville, Nebr., noting "Drawn in the Omaha Republican Lotry [sic] Jan. 10th, 1881." Howes E46.

Some wear to spine ends and corners, short tear to spine strip; light foxing within primarily affecting the tissue guards, photo mounts a little darkened with minor creasing (as usual from the normal shrinkage to photographic images); lacking two of the photographic plates; overall very good.