The autocrat of the breakfast table.
Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1894. Two volumes. 8vo. xvi, 219, [1]; vi, 221-474 pp. Half-title and title in red and black, frontispiece in each volume. With 13 plates. Full vellum, decorated in gilt, top edges gilt. A bright, clean and uncut copy with the bookplates of Carroll Atwood Wilson and Edwin B. Holden. Item #11917
Large paper limited edition, number 1 of 250 numbered printed. Pyle (1853-1911) was one of America’s foremost illustrators known for the timeless quality of his work. Some of the other works written and illustrated by him are Book of pirates; The story of King Arthur and his knights and The merry adventures of Robin Hood. BAL, 9215; C&T, p. 81.
Price: $300.00