[Extra Illustrated with Original Watercolors] James Fenimore Cooper E-List 31 Bound in dark red crushed

Bound in dark red crushed morocco by Riviere & Son with a lovely Arts & Crafts border design with a square design of gilt leaves and inlaid gold flowers at each corner

Print paper size: 14" x 11"

Also included is the catalogue from Rennie's "Designer Bindings" exhibition that was held at Kroch's and Brentano's in Chicago in 1985

Title page and colophon page decorated by wide border

Recollections

[Extra Illustrated with Original Watercolors] James Fenimore Cooper E-List 31 Bound in dark red crushedLounsbury, Thomas R. American Men of Letters: James Fenimore Cooper. Houghton Mifflin, 1910. Tissue covered engraving as frontispiece. The fifth volume in the "American Men of Letters" series. Stamp of T. Chalkley Matlack to front pastedown. Measures approx. 5" x 7. 25". Some light rubbing to edges and corners. This volume has been extra illustrated by Thomas Chalkley Matlack, a Quaker artist and scholar from Moorestown, NJ. Following the issued title