Scarce! Laura Ledyard~ WT Peters and 50 similar items

Binder's copy: still sewn but with loose pages, both paste-downs split, chipped. Spine and boards chipped. (Hand?)colored paper boards also chipped. No jacket (as issued?). Pages have chips, as well. Sold as is. There is one copy for sale in the world, in the UK. There is one copy shown as a library holding, hand-colored by a child's hand (according to the holder). This makes the third known copy. Colour pictorial boards. 34 leaves, printed rectos only, all but the contents leaf illustrated. The author's first book, albeit a collaboration, to which he contributed thirteen of the twenty-four poems. Peters (1862-1904) was an American-born poet and actor. A 'permanent guest' at the Rhymers' Club, he is most notable for having commissioned Ernest Dowson to write his short play, 'The Pierrot of the Minute' Laura Ledyard wrote juvenile history before joining Peters in this work. D(ewitt) C(linton) Peters was an American Artist born in 1865 in Baltimore and worked as a painter, portrait artist as well as an illustrator. He died in 1948. A(lfred Laurens) Brennan was also an American artist, painter, etcher and artist.