Announcement of $200 reward for return of painting on ivory, Malbone's "Hours," and "suitable" rewards for return of three oil portraits, all stolen Aug. 15, 1881.
Notes:
At head of title wood-engraving of three young women, apparently from Malbone's "Hours."
Type-signed at end: William Gammell, President Providence Athenaeum.
The Sidney S. Rider Collection, the largest private collection of materials related to the history of Rhode Island, was purchased from Sidney Rider and presented to the library by Marsden Perry in 1903. Rider was a leading Providence bookseller, publisher …
