(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1887).

FIRST EDITION OF THIS GORGEOUS LATE 19TH CENTURY GIFT BOOK WITH LAVISH WOOD-ENGRAVINGS THROUGHOUT.
New Hampshire native Frank French went to New York, in 1872, where he first worked for the American Tract Society engraving reproductions of paintings for the society's publications. By 1875 he was working independently. French was a member of the Society of American Wood Engravers; the Artists' Fund Society of New York (he served on its board of control); the Kit Kat Club; and the Salmagundi Club. In 1889 he was appointed to the United States Commission for the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900, selecting engravings and etchings to be exhibited there. He received medals in the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893; the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901; and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Saint Louis, 1904. Item #32499

First Edition. With charming floral embellishments on nearly every page, head and tail pieces, and initial letters and beautiful portraits on full-page plates throughout. Folio, beautifully bound in the publisher's pictorially decorated cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover, with gorgeous gilt and muted color decorations on both covers with designs of children and water lilies, pale blue cloth book ribbon, a.e.g. 93 pp. A fine copy, internally near as pristine. The lavishly handsome binding in lovely condition with the minor exception of some mild rubbing at the extremities, free-fly slightly shaken.