xi, [5], 105, [1] pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 41 x 31 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1887
19th century
Notes:
"This edition, the full-page illustrations of which are printed on Japanese paper, is bound in vellum and is limited to one hundred copies"--P. [iv].
On verso of title page: Cambridge, Mass. : Riverside Press, 1886.
Includes reproductions of works of art by Edwin Austin Abbey, William Merritt Chase, Alfred Parsons, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Elihu Vedder, Julian Alden Weir, Stanford White, among others.
Illustrated title page.
Mounted illustrations, most of the plates included in the pagination.
Last page blank.
Edward Strahan is a pseudonym for Earl Shinn.
Book designed by Stanford White. See Brander Matthews, Bookbindings, old and new (London, New York: G. Bell, 1896), page 213.
Contents:
Their habitat, One of their meetings / by Edward Strahan -- Shop talk, Around their wood fire, Club chestnuts warmed over / by F. Hopkinson Smith
