Accession Number: 2004.61
Summary/Description: The author, a noted historian, was visually impaired and used the handwriting guide called a noctograph, a writing frame with wire guides in which carbon paper was placed on a metal plate and handwriting produced with a stylus. Includes a portrait frontispiece showing Prescott using a noctograph. Includes an index. Printed for the Massachusetts Historical Society. Bookplate on front free endpaper. Maroon clothbound boards with gold-stamped lettering and lines on front cover and spine, blind-stamped illustration on front cover, and gilt top edges. Some pages are uncut.
Author: Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
History/Provenance: Bookplate indicates that in 1931 the book belonged to Clarke Billings.
Credit Line: Museum Purchase, 2004.61
Publisher: Riverside Press
Publisher Place: Cambridge
Publish Date: 1925
Subjects: Biography Correspondence Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
Physical Description: 691 p. : ill. ; 9 5/8 x 7 1/2 x 2 in.
