Description

Hardcover, cream cloth spine over gray paper covered boards. Tite, etc. printed on gray boards in black, on cream cloth spine in gold. 113pp., Illustrated with 15 plates and vignette drawings. First edition. Printed at Baker & Taylor, New York. An exhibition catalog, notable for the frontispiece portrait of the artist and the decorative material by Thomas Sidney Moran, in addition to the marine paintings depicting American history from Lief Erickson through the Spanish-American War. Small card pasted onto front end-paper, presentation to Rev. Dr. Charles M. Winchester from the author, Theodore Sutro, dated July 26, 1905. Private gift inscription below, directly on endpaper, signed by Rev. Winchester. Covers show wear at tips and general age and finger soiling. Else an internally clean, square, unmarked, sound copy. Good+