Book details
$US 165.00
ARTMAN, WM. AND L.V. HALL.
Beauties and Achievements of the Blind.
Imprint: Rochester, Published for the Authors, 1879
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
8vo., publisher's brown pebbled cloth decorated in blind and gilt; head and foot of spine slightly rubbed (otherwise quite fresh). Opposite the frontispiece (and before the title) is an eight-line quotation from Isaiah XLII, 16 PRINTED IN LARGE BLIND EMBOSSED LETTERS. First edition. The book begins with memoirs of eminent blind authors, including Homer, Milton, Ossian followed by more contemporary writers and concludes with a section of Collected Poems by Hall and other blind authors.
EMBOSSED-TYPE FRONTISPIECE
Stock number:557.