Reprint of the 1911 First Edition, Limited Edition, 1 of 500 copies. Original cloth binding. Illustrated with photographic plates. 264pp., with tipped-in Identification Index to the Emilio Collection prepared by the Gordon Bennetts, Middletown, Conn. (Essex Inst., Salem, 1949) 2pp. in wrappers; and 1-page.”Corrigenda”.
A classic and comprehensive work of an amazing collection, nearly as scarce of the original imprint, of which only 300 copies were printed. Covers American buttons, from the Revolution through the Civil War, Indian wars and Spanish-American Wars; British buttons of the same period, including the Napoleonic Wars; French buttons of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods, through the Franco-Prussian War; Spanish buttons of the Spanish-American War; miscellaneous Italian, German, Belgian, Swedish, Russian, Swiss, Egyptian, Mexican and Hawaiian (!) buttons; and even non-military US government, social, educational, police, political and railroad.