1862 Daniel M. Hodges’ American Bank Note Safe-Guard. Sullivan Type M. Choice Very Fine Contents and Finely Bound.A top condition example in its superb Sam Ellenport crafted binding. Few surpass this condition-wise.Titles and Specifications: Hodges, Daniel M. Hodges American Bank Note Safe-Guard; Giving Fac Simile Descriptions of Upwards of Ten Thousand Bank Notes Embracing Every Genuine Note Issued in the United States & Canada. Revised and Corrected, and Arranged Geographically and Alphabetically. The Most Effectual Detector of Spurious, Altered and Counterfeit Bills Ever Published. The Only Work of the Kind Extant. New-York: Arranged and Published by Daniel M. Hodges, 1862. Folio 36.0cm by 23.0cm. Bound in three quarter morocco leather, spine compartments titled in gilt, original brown embossed boards with gilt titling. (3), 4-340 pp. Boarded typographical depictions of bank notes organized 3 by 10 to a page.Distinguishing Features: Like Sullivan Type L, 3 by 10 note arrangement and larger overall book size. Formerly the Ford Library example.Like the previous Sullivan L, this is also exceptional inside and out like. Pages are superb throughout, fresh and bright. Minor internal slit fault within the cover wrapper, but not repaired. The original boards within its new binding also create an exceptional appeal. Ex: Kolbe & Fanning 2012 New York Sale, January 7, 2012, lot 301 and previously in the Stacks-Kolbe Ford Library Part I, June 1, 2004, lot 592. From the MJS Collection.
