FORD, PAUL LEICESTER - Janice Meredith a Story of the American Revolution

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1899. Limited Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Howard Pyle & students. B&W Illustrations; Two Volume Set. Limited Edition. Both volumes are in Very Good condition and possibly issued without dust jackets. Volume two is in slightly better condition. Together, The books and their contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine of both volumes have some sunning / fading, while volume one has several small edge tears to the top spine end. The text pages are clean and bright. The text is uncut and untrimmed. There is an inked former owner's name and date (1899) on the front endpaper of volume one and again on the half title page of volume two. Volume one includes a Miniature of Janice Meredith by Lillie V. O'Ryan while volume two includes a miniature of George Washington by Sharpless. The text of both volumes is illustrated with 172 plates - most of which are by the students of Howard Pyle. This copy is missing three plates (pgs 186, 188 & 192 - however they do not appear to have been excised, but conversely, left out during the binding process). The majority of the plates appear to be by his students, especially some of his more favored female artists, including Ellen Bernard Thompson and Anna Whelan Betts. It is possible that Howard Pyle is responsible for up to 58 of the illustrations (according to Howard Pyle: Imagining An American School of Art by Jill May, etc. ). This volume sold very well as an illustrated holiday edition, in fact it was listed as the best selling book in February 1900. "Ford was the great-grandson of Noah Webster and the brother of historian Worthington C. Ford. He wrote of the lives of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and others, edited the works of Thomas Jefferson, and wrote a number of novels which had considerable success, including The Honorable Peter Stirling, Story of an Untold Love, Janice Meredith, Wanted a Matchmaker, and Wanted a Chaperon. Ford's edition of The Writings of Thomas Jefferson is still regarded as one of the monuments of American historical scholarship, setting the standard for documentary editing for half a century until the appearance of the first volume of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Julian P. Boyd. Ford's edition remains valuable for its accuracy of transcription from original manuscripts and its careful annotation of the documents chosen for publication. The Ford edition appeared in two versions, a 10 volume edition published between 1892 and 1896 and a 14 volume limited numbered edition issued in 1904, known as the "Federal" edition. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .

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