Reminiscences of William Wetmore Story: The American Sculptor and Author Being Incidents and Anecdotes Chronologically Arranged. Together with an Account of his Associations with Famous People and his Principal Works in Literature and Sculpture.

PHILLIPS, Mary E.

$2,000.00

Item Number: 122407

Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Company, 1897.

First edition of Phillips’ biography of William Wetmore Story. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Story. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Inscribed with cordial good will by Mary E. Phillips for a very gracious Lady to give as a Christmas present of 1905 to Dorothy Place.” In very good condition. Rare signed and inscribed.

American sculptor, art critic, poet, and editor William Wetmore Story is best known for his statues of George Peabody next to the Royal Exchange in London and Chief Justice John Marshall Memorial, Washington D.C., as well as the Angel of Grief, sculpted for the grave of his wife Emelyn Story at the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.