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The engraving and entire paper are in VG condition. The paper is the normal tanish color. Light staining in the margins. There is a section in the left margin that is toned (8 x 1 in). This toned area enters the image area of the engraving at the upper right. Except for this, the entire issue is free of significant stains or foxing.

 
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Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, Boston, April 23, 1853, Volume IV, No. 17, whole number 95, front page (page 258). The front page of this edition has a 1/2+ page (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in - 16.5 x 23.7 cm) woodcut engraving of the Emperor of Japan giving an audience. The engraving is titled, "Representation of the Throne of the Emperor of Japan, at Jeddo." There is a short article above the engraving describing the Emperor giving audience to his "assistant rules" while setting under a roof "...covered with gold plates."

This engraving is found in the 16 page edition of April 23, 1853. Other illustrations in this issue include:

• The Crown Jewels of England
• View fo Main Street, Richmond, Virginia
• Church of St James the Less, Near Laurel Hill Cemetary, Philadelphia
• The Frozen Cascade of Giessbach
• View of the City of Hartford Conn Showing a Steamboat
• Madame Josephine Fortune Clofullia, the Bearded Lady of Geneva
• View of the American Flint Glas Works, South of Boston

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