Description
The first edition of The Cincinnati Cemetery of Spring Grove, a Report for 1857, with lithographed plates.
Octavo, [2], 147pp, [3]. Publisher’s pebbled brown cloth, ruled in blind, title stamped in gilt on the cover. Yellow endpapers. Touch of wear to cloth at the head of the spine. Some faint transference from plates to adjacent leaf. Solid text block. Free of ownership marks or notations. This work includes a lithograph with a fold-out “View of Lake,” and 46 additional plates. The “Index to Plates” calls for 48 plates and a fold-out “View of Lake,” but the two lacking (O.C. Betts and Peter Neff) are lacking in all catalogued examples. (Sabin 89822)
An outstanding example of this scarce work on early Cincinnati.
A revised and enlarged edition of this report was issued in 1862, printed by Bradley & Webb of Cincinnati. (Sabin 89825) Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, founded in 1845, was designed by landscape architect Howard Daniels and later refined by Adolph Strauch. It is the resting place for many of Cincinnati’s prominent industrial, political, and cultural figures, including Salmon P. Chase (Chief Justice of the United States), Civil War General Joseph Hooker, Procter & Gamble cofounders James Gamble and William Procter, the Nicholas Longworth family, and members of the Taft family.
