‎WOOSTER MATTHIES Annie ( prepared for ) - [ ] Armorial BINDING :‎
‎Wooster, Putnam and allied families. Genealogical and Biographical. Prepared for Annie Wooster Mathhies ( Mrs. George E. Mathhies) by the American Historical Society.‎

‎" New York, private edition (prepared by the American Historical Society), 1927, handcolored title + handcolored dedication leaf + (54) leaves numbered 9-107 , printed on one side only, printed on japan paper, with 7 plates (3 coat of arms, 4 portraits). loosely inserted a typescript leaf with (tipped on with adhesive tape) a small portrait photograph of Silas Putnam (died battle of Fredericksburg , Virginia May 4th , 1863), tipped-on to the second fly leaf a printed note pertaining to the Wooster family, the printed ex-libris of Delores Lance Dupuis tipped on to the verso of the first fly-leaf. With the blind stamp of the DLD library on the title page. Binding; bound in full dark blue morocco, front cover with a large coat of arms of the Worcester Wooster family in gilt and inlaid white and red leather, within an intricate rectangular border consisting of 5 gilt fillets and a frame in red inlaid leather, the back cover with a similar decoration with the coat of arms of the Putnam family. Raised gilt spine, doublures of red morocco within a frame of dark blue morocco with 4 gilt fillets, in the centre of the doublures two large gilt twigs with 5 roses, the roses gilt and with white inlaid leather petals. Recto of first and verso of last fly leaf made of cream colored watery silk. A really stunning master binding , unsigned, perfectly preserved. The related families to which the title refers are ; Matthies , Beebe , Hathaway , Hampden and Chatfield."‎

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