THE SONG OF THE SOWER
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1881. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo: 48 pp. with 42 textual illustrations and 2 vignettes, all wood engravings by Edmonds, Fay, Filmer, Harley, Karst, Kindgon, Langridge, Linton, and Quartly, after Bushing, Fenn, Griswold, Hennessy, Winslow Homer, Hows, Nehlig, and Perkins. In the publisher's orange diagonal fine-ribbed cloth binding, with beveled boards; gilt-stamped ruled borders, black and gilt-stamped ruled and ornamental surround with decorative corners, black-stamped ivy decorations, and gilt-stamped wheat sheaf, grapevine decoration, and decorative titling on the front panel; gilt-stamped running titling along the spine; and blind-stamped ruled borders and surround with decorative corners on the rear panel. All edges gilt, with buff endpapers with a tan-printed floral pattern. Light rubbing to the corners and tips; else fine. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin. Near fine. Item #79308
Price: $250.00