Selections from the Panorama of Professions and Trades; or Every Man's Book

New York: Martin M. Reed, 1956. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. A very sharp copy of the 1956 1st thus (reprinted from the 1836 1st edition, Philadelphia). Clean and Fine in its patterned boards. 64mo, handsome "trade" engravings at each verso. The colophon at the rear: "Monticello is the typeface used in this pamphlet. It was cut by Linotype for the Jefferson Papers, the tremendous sixty volume publishing project of the Princeton University Press. It is a modern re-cutting of the Binny & Ronaldson Roman Number One, a type considered to be the first American design and one much in use in the first quarter of the XIX Century.