PYLE HOWARD; et al First Year Book The Bibliophile Society

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FIRST YEAR BOOK, INSCRIBED BY AUTHORS PYLE, HOWARD; et al. First Year Book: The Bibliophile Society. Articles by Pyle, Roswell Field, and Nathan Haskell Dole. Title-page decoration and frontispiece by Pyle. 8vo, original gilt-lettered grey boards, light wear to spine ends and tips. one of 500 copies printed for members only. Ex-collection Society member Roswell Field with his bookplate and signature, dated Buena Park, 1902. Boston, 1902

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inscribed and signed by pyle to field with a small ink sketch of a man in a tri-cornered hat, under his frontispiece, dated 1903. Pyle contributed the second of three essays in the book: "Concerning the Art of Illustration." President of The Bibliophile Society, Nathan Haskell Dole, inscribed and signed his essay "The Revival of Old Authors" to Field "Here in your own pleasant den" dated November 19, 1905, from Chicago. Field himself contributed the third article in the work, "Bibliomania," and signed and dated it "Cambridge 1901."