Description
The signed limited edition of Bryant And His Friends: Some Reminiscences Of The Knickerbocker Writers by James Grant Wilson.
Quarto, [8], 443pp. Publisher’s full black morocco, title in gilt on the spine, five raised bands. All edges gilt, silk endpapers, gilt turn-ins. Complete with frontispiece portrait, 12 manuscript facsimiles, 4 views of “Poets’ Homes,” and 47 steel-engraved plates. Light wear to tips of the spine, internally clean. Also known as the “Large Paper Edition,” as stated on the limitation page.
From a limited edition of 195 copies signed by the author, this being number 91.
The author of this work, James Grant Wilson (1832-1914) was an American author, editor, and Union Army officer best known as a biographical and historical compiler in the post-Civil War era. Born in Edinburgh and raised in the United States, Wilson served as a colonel of the 4th U.S. Colored Cavalry and later held brevet rank as brigadier general, then settled in New York literary circles, helping to found the Holland Society and the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
