first edition
1916 · Boston and New York
by Muir, John
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916 First edition ["Manuscript Edition"], publisher's maroon leather binding. Number 192 of 750 sets. 10 volumes. Each volume with frontis photogravures with numerous photogravures, halftones and maps. Extra-illustrated (as issued) with added hand-colored gravure frontispieces in the first eight volumes. Portion of an original leaf of manuscript by Muir inlaid to front flyleaf of volume I. Publisher's handsome three-quarter maroon levant morocco with maroon cloth sides, gilt-stamped lettering and floral ornaments on spine, four raised bands, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Bound by hand at the Riverside Press. Spines uniformly toned to a dark golden brown. A bit of minor wear or rubbing to some corners with a few just showing. Overall, a beautiful set. "The Writings" were sold by subscription only and could be bound to order. The publisher's normal binding was green buckram with leather spine labels. Copies bound in morocco are excessively rare. Our set corresponds to Kimes' number 342, with the levant morocco binding, and with the additional and delicately hand-colored frontispieces in each of the first eight volumes. The first eight volumes were published from 1916 through 1918. The ninth and tenth volumes did not appear until 1923 and 1924. [Kimes, John Muir, a Reading Bibliography: 342]..
(Inventory #: 8408)