[Fine Binding | Virginia Chester] The Biglow Papers E-List 33 Van Vechten

Van Vechten

loosely inserted

offsetting to front endpaper

and his metal-cut engraving of Joan of Arc tipped-in

a few other spots of wear to rear cover

[Fine Binding | Virginia Chester] The Biglow Papers E-List 33 Van VechtenLowell, James Russell. The Biglow Papers. With Additional Notes, an Enlarged Glossary, and an Illustration by George Cruikshank London, John Camden Hotten, 1859. Bound in red brown crushed morocco by Virginia Chester with a blind tooled pattern of leaves, dashes, and triangles to front and rear covers. Five bands to spine, with title to second compartment and author to fifth compartment. Wide turn ins with marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Bookplate