Cobb, Piercy, Mitchell & Martin on Washington Buttons

Cobb, J. Harold, Elmer A. Piercy, Kirk Mitchell, and Sydney F. Martin. GEORGE WASHINGTON INAUGURAL BUTTONS & MEDALETS, 1789 & 1793. Custom-made clamshell box (4to, original green quarter morocco, gilt, with green sides; spine with five raised bands, ruled and decorated in gilt; two red morocco spine labels, gilt) containing the following works: Cobb, J. Harold. GEORGE WASHINGTON INAUGURAL BUTTONS & MEDALETS, 1789 & 1793. Hamden: Private Printing, 1963. 4to, original printed card covers. (1), 37 leaves, printed on rectos only. Lacking the photographic plate called for on page 36. Signed by the author and by a previous owner. Piercy, Elmer A. GEORGE WASHINGTON INAUGURAL BUTTONS & MEDALETS, 1789 & 1793 BY J. HAROLD COBB C.P.A. REVISED IN PART BY ELMER A. PIERCY, VICTORVILLE, CALIF. WITH THE KIND PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR, MAY 16, 1968. 4to, original 8.5 by 11 inch sheets printed on one side; three-hole punched for inclusion in binder and previously stapled in corner. (3), 21 leaves; 5 additional leaves with rather poor photocopy illustrations. Mitchell, Kirk. GEORGE WASHINGTON INAUGURAL BUTTONS & MEDALETS, 1789 & 1793 BY J. HAROLD COBB C.P.A. REVISED IN PART BY ELMER A. PIERCY, VICTORVILLE, CALIF. WITH THE KIND PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR, MAY 16, 1968. FURTHER REVISED BY KIRK MITCHELL, JANUARY 27, 2005. 4to, original 8.5 by 11 inch sheets printed on one side. 27 leaves; illustrated. Martin, Sydney F. ILLUSTRATED WASHINGTON BUTTONS. 4to, original 8.5 by 11 inch sheets printed on one side. 17 leaves; illustrated; additional leaf reproducing the Cobb “scratchplate.” First two works a bit worn, particularly at spine edge; latter two works are fine, as is the box Syd Martin had made for the group by Dragonfly Bindery. Includes an unplated copy of the main work along with two supplementary works that are rarely encountered and a useful compilation assembled by Martin himself as an illustrated guide to the series. The first two items are ANS Library duplicates sold as lot 88 in Charles Davis’s February 2, 2008 auction sale.