Baltimore, Isaac P Cook, bookseller, cover, nd

Isaac P. Cook
Bookseller and Stationer
76 Baltimore St.

All inside a calligraphic swirly. Addressed to WW Harding, Publisher, Philadelphia.

A Baltimore City Directory places Cook at this address (actually W. Baltimore St.) in 1845. www.mdgenweb.org/baltimorecity/1845citydirectorypage28.htm

Maryland Historical Society has further info:
COOK FAMILY PAPERS, MS. 2328
Land transactions of Isaac P. Cook (1808-84), Baltimore bookseller and stationer, and his wife, Laura (d. 1876), and daughter, Isabel (fl. 1877-87); correspondence, 1877-80, about property assessment; deeds for Baltimore City and County land, 1808-87.
47 items, 1808-87
www.mdhs.org/library/Mss/pedleyC.html

Cover posted to ebay here. Sold for under $3:
Link removed per Flickr's instructions, even though links were for reference and I had no monetary interest in them.

WW Harding was bankrupt by 1878, according to this article from the NY Times:
query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9505E...

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