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Henry Altemus
Philadelphia, 1842-1936

Illustrated Vademecum Edition, 1900

Nd. 105x165mm, 361p. Half-title printed purple and red, titlepage in light green and red. No frontispiece. DuMaurier illustrations on calendared stock. Dark green vellum cloth stamped red, pink, green and gold; note irregular corners. Printed endsheets incorporating publisher's initial. BAP.

Nd. 105x165mm, 361. Endsheets, half-title, titlepage and stamping as copy above but with color frontispiece shown right. Dark green (darker than shown above right) vellum cloth. On this copy the lower two of the three large blossoms at the top of the design are color paper onlays that have then been overstamped in gold. The top blossom, and the lower blossoms on the right, are stamped red. S&EH: with presentation card dated May 12, '03 affixed to front flyleaf; 16p. catalog of Altemus publications bound in at rear..

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