Singerman ID#supp2484

An Oriental Constellation. A Romantic Page of Hidden History in the Barbaric Age, Delineating the Fall and Rise of a Peculiar Nation. Illustrated. Fourth American and the First British Edition.

Singerman Entry

Singerman ID#supp2484

Harfield, G. Eugene. An Oriental Constellation. A Romantic Page of Hidden History in the Barbaric Age, Delineating the Fall and Rise of a Peculiar Nation. Illustrated. Fourth American and the First British Edition. Richmond, Va., and London: Hewlitt & Pierce, 1891. 250, [2], 121 p.

Notes

A perfect copy has a frontispiece of the author and six unnumbered leaves of plates. The lists in the second group devoted to the book’s American and British subscribers vary in their length. The National Library of Israel copy has 251, [2], 27 p.; the MWA copy is also 251 p. with 52 p. of subscribers. The variant Library of Congress copy collates as 253, [2], 27 p. A curious book given that all four known copies are different! See also entry 3646.