Lyman C. Draper, Burns & Son, New York, 1889, revised and enlarged form Vol X, Wisconsin Historical Society Collections, ex Minnesota Historical Society, inscribed and signed to Fletcher Williams. There is soiling of the front cover.
Draper was one of the country’s greatest collectors of Americana and the driving force behind the Wisconsin Historical Society’s collection. The book offers a detailed accounting of the then known collections of Signers. It is one of the better histories of early autograph collecting in America or rare material and some of the elite collectors and dealers up to the late 1800’s. Fletcher Williams was also an historian and author, primarily on Minnesota.
Lyman C. Draper, Burns & Son, New York, 1889, revised and enlarged form Vol X, Wisconsin Historical Society Collections, ex Minnesota Historical Society, inscribed and signed to Fletcher Williams. There is soiling of the front cover.
Draper was one of the country’s greatest collectors of Americana and the driving force behind the Wisconsin Historical Society’s collection. The book offers a detailed accounting of the then known collections of Signers. It is one of the better histories of early autograph collecting in America or rare material and some of the elite collectors and dealers up to the late 1800’s. Fletcher Williams was also an historian and author, primarily on Minnesota.
