In Wallpaper Wrappers

Joseph II and His Court ... from the German by Adelaide de V, Chaudron.

Mobile, [Alabama]: S.H. Goetzel; Farrow & Bennett, Printers, 1864.

Price: $1,500.00


About the item

First edition in English. 4 vols. 8vo. In Wallpaper Wrappers. Printed wallpaper wrappers, worn and fragile; back wrapper of Vol. II missing. In blue cloth drop-box. Parrish 6437; Crandall, M.L. Confederate imprints 3106.

Item #228980

Rare and telling example of printing in the confederacy toward the end of the war, when paper was so scarce the publisher was forced to use wallpaper taken from Southern homes for the wrappers.