Item #6108 Plans and Sections, of the Obelisk on Bunker's Hill, With the Details of the Experiments Made in Quarrying the Granite. Solomon Willard.
Plans and Sections, of the Obelisk on Bunker's Hill, With the Details of the Experiments Made in Quarrying the Granite.
Plans and Sections, of the Obelisk on Bunker's Hill, With the Details of the Experiments Made in Quarrying the Granite.
Plans and Sections, of the Obelisk on Bunker's Hill, With the Details of the Experiments Made in Quarrying the Granite.
Plans and Sections, of the Obelisk on Bunker's Hill, With the Details of the Experiments Made in Quarrying the Granite.
Plans and Sections, of the Obelisk on Bunker's Hill, With the Details of the Experiments Made in Quarrying the Granite.
Plans and Sections, of the Obelisk on Bunker's Hill, With the Details of the Experiments Made in Quarrying the Granite.
Plans and Sections, of the Obelisk on Bunker's Hill, With the Details of the Experiments Made in Quarrying the Granite.

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Plans and Sections, of the Obelisk on Bunker's Hill, With the Details of the Experiments Made in Quarrying the Granite.

Boston: Printed by Samuel N. Dickinson; Chas. Cook's Lith., 1843. Large 4to, original paper over boards with printed paper label on front cover, recent calf spine. 31 pp., 14 lithographic plates including 1 folding.

First and only edition. A fascinating account of the building of the Bunker Hill Memorial coupled with a detailed description of how the granite was quarried. Willard was both architect and superintendent. Moreover, he himself developed the machinery, pictured herein, that was used to quarry, work and transport the granite. A man of many parts, Willard is nevertheless one whose reputation "has never equaled his numerous achievements as an architect, teacher, inventor, sculptor and granite quarryman" (MacMillan Encyclopedia of Architects).

Born in Roxbury, Mass., Charles Cook (1812–1863) is recorded in 1831 as an engraver in Boston, and from 1848 to 1852 is listed as a lithographer and engraver. Cook worked as a real estate broker from 1858 to 1861 and, as Peters suggests, appears to have focused on maps and plans that were created for real estate uses. Cook supplied illustrations for two works by Charles T. Jackson on New Hampshire’s geology, mineralogy and scenery, which were published in 1844 and 1845.

REFERENCES: Hitchcock 1409; Peters, “Charles Cook,” America on Stone; Boston Lithography, 1825–1880, pp. 133-134

CONDITION: Good, covers with various stains, none egregious, some plates foxed.

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