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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1884. First. Very Good. A very good copy in brown cloth with gilt titles on spine and front cover Binding very solid, Bumped corner and minor shelf wear but else in excellent condition Text very clean with no marks or damage Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown of the well-known collector, Frederick W Skiff

Frederick Woodward Skiff (1867â€"1947), was an author, noted collector, bibliophile, expert on Americana, and founder of the Acorn Club He traveled widely throughout the United States during his adult life, but is most associated with Connecticut and Portland, Oregon In 1899, he founded the Acorn Club in Hartford, Connecticut, a membership organization of Connecticut historians which publishes fine press-work specialty books on American historical subjects
Over the course of his life, Skiff amassed one of the most important private libraries in the United States, with particular emphases on literature and history[citation needed] After his death in 1947, the library's contents were sold at auction by Butterfield & Butterfield (now Bonham's) in San Francisco Many of the books made their ways into other important collections 291 pp.