Yesterdays With Authors.

FIELDS, James T.

$975.00

Item Number: 122843

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882.

Finely bound illustrated edition of Fields’ Yesterdays with Authors. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco by Tout with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, gilt decorative cornerpieces to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, watered silk doublures and endleaves, gilt topstain, extra illustrated with 61 rare plates including tissue-guarded frontispiece of Charles Dickens, and engraved portraits of Thackeray, Wordsworth, Hawthorne, Longfellow, and many others. In near fine condition. Bookplate.

Fields' famed Yesterdays With Authors includes biographies and portraits of William Thackeray, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, William Wordsworth, and Nancy Mitford. with numerous additional portraits of Charles Kingsley, William Prescott, Robert Burns, and many others.