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[Title page and frontis. of The Stranger's Gift, Boston, 1836 (Hermann Bokum, ed.)] – Vintage Print

[Title page and frontis. of The Stranger's Gift, Boston, 1836 (Hermann Bokum, ed.)] — historic print
[Title page and frontis. of The Stranger's Gift, Boston, 1836 (Hermann Bokum, ed.)]. Historic print from the Boston collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The title page and frontispiece of *The Stranger's Gift*, a Boston volume from 1836 edited by Hermann Bokum, set the book's identity before a reader reached its contents. Books of this kind were often called gift books or annuals: lavishly decorated volumes sold around the winter holidays as presents, with engraved plates and ornate title pages meant to show off the publisher's craft. Boston was a major center of American book printing and engraving in the 1830s, so a title page like this one reflects the taste and skill of that trade. The record is thin, so the exact design and engraver are not documented here.

Medium1 print.
Notes1836
SubjectsIllus. in: The Stranger's Gift, Boston, 1836, title page. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI--Works; Holidays; RBD; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan857 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-134398

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