[of Representative Americans at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century...] by Constance Cary Harrison, New York: Town Topics Publishing Company, 1905, numbered copy "27", containing numerous black and white illustrations throughout, facsimile signatures of each subject in the table of contents, each page printed in red, gold, and black, many with elaborate gilt scrollwork borders, bound in full dark green leather, cover with blindstamped and gilt ruling, foliate and ribbon borders, and central sailing ship in wreath cartouche, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, five raised bands, front and back board interiors with gilt ruling, green moire endpapers, aeg

Provenance: The Estate of Peter H. Tillou, Litchfield, Connecticut

some scattered scuffs to leather, light wear to extremities, a few areas of offsetting to images, scattered areas of very light staining