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Very Rare First Edition of Hodges' New Bank Note DelineatorNew-York: Published by Hodges & Company, 1856. First edition. Folio [34 by 21 cm], original brown cloth embossed in blind and lettered in gilt. (2), 310 pages; typographical depictions of bank notes, 27 to a page, throughout. The very rare first issue of what came to be known, in subsequent editions, as the Bank Note Safeguard. The Hodges family were publishers of a prominent New York bank note reporter, along with several other similar publications, from the mid-1850s to the mid-1860s. According to Dillistin, this important work was pirated from John Dye's 1855 Bank Note Plate Delineator, but this is almost certainly incorrect. This 1856 issue was unknown to Dillistin, and given that it appears to have been printed from the identical plates used for Dye's 1855 work, it would seem that the copyright had been legally secured. All of the various editions are rare, but the first edition offered here is very rare indeed. The binding on this copy is damp-stained; text generally free of staining, though occasional exceptions are seen. Good to very good. Estimate $600. Ex: Armand Champa; Bowers & Merena (11/1994). Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society.
Heritage Auctions 11/2018 (Newman XI), lot15307 (realized $900).
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