The London Company of Virginia: A Brief Account of its Transactions in Colonizing Virginia, With Photogravures of the More Prominent Leaders Reproduced From Collection of Historical Portraits at Oakridge, Nelson County, Virginia. Secured for Exhibition at the Jamestown Exposition by Thomas Fortune Ryan

New York/London: [Publisher not identified]/ The De Vinne Press, 1908. Hardcover. VG (spine totally broken with crude repair, reading copy only, inside pages are very clean). Original three quarters red and white leather boards with stamped gilt lettering and design on front cover, decorative end pages, 21 pages, 23 leaves, 23 leaves of plates; portraits. Introduction by J. Taylor Ellyson. "This copy is one of an edition of three hundred copies printed from type by the De Vinne press. No. 89." "This volume contains a short history of the London Company of Virginia, photogravures of each of the portraits and brief biographies, and it is printed by Mr. Ryan for private circulation among his friends who may not have the privilege of seeing the originals, but who will thus be enabled in some measure to enjoy with him this beautiful and valuable collection,which his love for Virginia first prompted him to gather, and which he preserves as a reminder of one of the most historic of Expositions ever held in America." -unnumbered page 6. (Inventory #: 176597)