•  Medina, Mexico, 5174; García Icazbalceta, Lenguas, 55; Viñaza 356; Maggs, Bibl. Amer., II, 2154; Sabin 52413; Palau 190159.   Original limp vellum, cockled and a little shrunken, upper front edge chipped, original ties partially surviving. Ex-AAS with its attractive bookplate (properly deaccessioned); private ownership stamp on title-page and one other. Lacks the very rare engraved frontispiece; a facsimile reproduction was inserted some time ago and is now loose. Text block separating from spine. Title-leaf torn, taking a bit of border, and next leaf same with first letters of three lines on verso taken; errata plate opposite p. 12 shaved at fore-edge, with loss to line (not page) references. A bit of thread-like worming, without text destruction, towards end. Overall clean. Not a pristine, but certainly a good copy of an important and scarce book.  (2154)

WorldCat finds only the copy at the National Library of Chile.

•  Medina, Mexico, 8090.   Folded and a little dog-eared; four instances of worming, two meander-type holes repaired. With manuscript certifications on verso that the document has been recorded in the official acts of three different towns.  (26044)

WorldCat locates only one copy.

•  Garritz, Impresos novohispanos, 1702. Not in Medina, Mexico.   Folded, otherwise as issued. Clean.  (26040)

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•  Palau 197255; Medina, Biblioteca Hispano-Americana, 6093. Contemporary treed sheep, spines with gilt-stamped leather title-labels and gilt-stamped decorations and volume numbers; corners and extremities slightly rubbed, boards with some scuffs and scrapes. Title-pages with decorative “BR” monogram stamp. Moderate offsetting to a number of pages in vol. I and a few in vol. II; occasional light spotting throughout. All edges speckled.

Binding:  Publisher's brick red cloth, elaborately stamped in black and bold on front cover (“Catholic Presentation Library”) and spine; stamped in blind on rear cover.

Prize book / Provenance: In manuscript on a slip of paper attached to the front free endpaper, “Premium / awarded to / Master Frank Von Au / for / Regular Attendance. / June 30, 1898.”

•  Bound as above, cloth of front joint starting to open; bright and fresh. Presentation slip as above, and presentee's name also rubber-stamped on front fly-leaf. Light foxing to guard tissue between frontispiece and title-page; offsetting to these, therefrom. A clean, nice copy.  (25786)

The detailed title-page and beautiful full-page woodcut coat of arms are present. The printer has also employed various handsome woodcut head- and tailpieces at different points in the text.

•  Sutro 756 ("19p." being a typographical error for collation given here); not in Steele, Independent Mexico: A Collection of Mexican Pamphlets in the Bodleian Library. Folded and never sewn or bound; as issued.

•  Single sheet without the integral blank. Irregular margins. Very good condition.

•  Palau 215473; Sutro 871. Stitched. Some very shallow tattering, a little shallow chipping, and some dog earing. Light brown-staining. Some pages out of order. Better overall than the condition details suggest.

An issue of the New Haven Journal Courier from December of 1890 recounts the following story of the broadside's origin and subsequent fate: “The late Charles Harvey Townshend, Esq., of New Haven about the year 1880 met Mr. Robert Livingston of New York while crossing the Atlantic. One day while Mr. Livingston was telling him of his experiences while a Yale student, he asked him, if he ever had the chance, to look in the front middle room, fourth story, north entry of old South Middle College, between the ceiling over the wood closet door. He said that in 1829 he placed there a bundle of printed sheets of 'doggerel verse,' a grind on a tutor of those days. These verses were recited by the composer, Peña, a Mexican (who was afterwards expelled) in the college chapel, on a Wednesday afternoon. Most of the class was expelled afterwards, for various reasons, and Mr. Livingston, who was one of them, said that his father always told him that he did perfectly right in not telling who wrote the verses (our emphasis). A fir [sic] broke out in Old South Middle in December 1890, and Mr. Townshend, with the permission of the then occupants of the room, searched the ceiling of the front middle room in accordance with Mr. Livingstons [sic] directions. He found there the bundle of verse, just as Mr. Livingston described.”

Uncommon: OCLC and NUC Pre-1956 report five U.S. locations, with Yale (predictably) holding several copies.

•  American Imprints 39988.   As issued (not showing signs of having been bound); creased once horizontally, upper edge darkened, four or five tiny spots of foxing in the lower left portion. A very nice copy of this scarce ephemeral piece.  (24643)

•  Palau 221275; Sabin 60899.   Modern quarter brown calf over marbled paper boards, with red and green spine labels. A clean, very nice set, with only a bit of minor dampstaining and the odd spot or paper flaw in all the many volumes. All edges red.  (25829)

•  Uncut, unopened copy in later wrappers (which are tattered). Text block split in two: requires binding. Edges dog-eared, some dust-soiling.  (21470)

•  Sutro 117; Steele 42; Medina, Mexico, 11696; Garritz, Impresos novohispanos, 3584. Modern marbled boards with paper label.

•  Publisher's acid-stained sheep, round spine with gilt tooling and two spine labels; rubbed at corners and extremities and with evidence of old worm attack at lower part of front joint. Interior clean; in fact, a very good copy. (25094)

Uncommon: We trance only the copies at Lehigh, Berkeley, the Sutro, and the Huntington.

•  Not in Medina, Mexico. Sutro 152; Garritz 3995; Steele 14 & 64; Palau 241263. Folded as issued.