Swan Press Robert Louis Stevenson Ten Fables with Twenty One Illustrations by Rachel Russell 1928

$450.00

With a memorial bookplate, “In Memory of Michael Hariot Huth Walters for his Friend” with the name “Betty” Menzies written in ink. Elizabeth G.C. Menzies was the rare woman staff photographer at Princeton University, whose images decorated the front cover of the Princeton Alumni Weekly for many years and a friend of Michael Heriot Huth Walters. Walters died suddenly. His friends at Princeton and his family, owners of the Swan Press, compiled a memorial volume of tributes from his classmates. This volume of Stevenson was given in appreciation to each of those contributors.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Ten Fables with Twenty One Illustrations by Rachel Russell. London: The Swan Press, Chelsea : MCMXXVIII [1928]. With a memorial bookplate, “In Memory of Michael Hariot Huth Walters for his Friend” with the name Betty Menzies written in ink. Elizabeth G.C. Menzies was the first official woman photographer at Princeton University, whose images decorated the front cover of the Princeton Alumni Weekly for many years and a friend of Michael Heriot Huth Walters. Walters died suddenly. His friends at Princeton and his family, owners of the Swan Press, compiled a memorial volume of tributes from his classmates. This volume of Stevenson was given in appreciation to each of those contributors. The woodcut frontispiece is “‘Drink’ Sang the Daughter of Miru.” Unpaginated, In-8. [iv; 36 pages; iv] 26 cm. Copy 65 of 250, printed in Baskerville type on hand-made paper. Copy 65 is one of the numbered uncolored copies numbered from 11 to 240. Blue swan decorated paper boards with a white linen backstrip. Fine, two slightly bumped corners, in near as-new condition with a bittersweet association.