Green, Jonathan H[arrington] | Exposé on the many ills of gambling, another copy

Green, Jonathan H[arrington]

Gambling Exposed. A Full Exposition of All the Various Arts, Mysteries and Miseries of Gambling. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Brothers, 1857 [?1858]

8vo (184 x 127 mm). Engraved frontispiece and 6 engraved plates, one full-page text illustration of card manufactories, publisher's 10-page advertisements at the end; in very good condition. Publisher's brown cloth blocked in blind and embossed with the firm name "T. B. Peterson & Brothers," spine gilt-stamped, yellow-coated endpapers; spine lightly faded and rubbed. 

Another copy with a variant title-page imprint and binding, both employing the firm name of "T. B. Peterson and Brothers." Although the copyright notice reads 1857, one source starts that Theophilus's brothers George and Thomas joined his company in 1858 (http://www.tsarthur.com/publishers/peterson.html).

REFERENCE:

cf. Howes G365; Jessel 662; not in Toole Stott

PROVENANCE:

Mrs. C--- Nelson (ownership inscription on blank recto of frontispiece dated Philadelphia, 1867) — Joseph ?P. T. Nelson (small red stamp on front free endpaper)