Elizabeth Robins Pennell — Charles Godfrey Leland

Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1906. First edition. Cloth. The first limited edition of this biography on Charles Godfrey Leland, an illustrated work written by his niece. A limited edition of one-hundred and fifty copies, published concurrently with the first trade edition.Complete in two volumes.Elizabeth Robins Pennell's touching biography on the life of her uncle, Charles Godfrey Leland.Leland was a humorist, journalist, and folklorist from America. He encouraged his niece to make writing her career when she was a young woman, leading to her successful career publishing as a biographer, travel writer, food connoisseur, and art critic. Volume I is illustrated with a frontispiece, and eighteen plates.Volume II is illustrated with a frontispiece, and fifteen plates.Collated, complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities.Spine labels are a little age-toned and chipped. Spines are a little discoloured. A few light marks to the cloth. Rear hinge of Volume I is starting but firm, rear hinge of Volume II is strained. Bookseller's label to the rear paste down of Volume I. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .