Blue-Grass and Rhododendron: Out-Doors in Old Kentucky

London; [New York]: Archibald Constable & Co., Ltd.; [Trow Directory, Printing, and Binding Company], 1905. Octavo (21 x 15 cm.), x, 294 pages. Illustrated with twenty plates with illustrations by F.C. Yohn, H.L. Brown and W.S. Rogers. Decorative publisher's binding designed by Margaret Armstrong. Top-edge-gilt. FIRST U.K. EDITION, following the original U.S. publication by Scribners in 1901. Both editions printed by Trow. Twelve stories and sketches, including adventure and sporting tales. Fox was one of the most popular American novelists in the 1900s leading up to World War I. His sister, Minnie Fox, (Minerva Worth Carr Fox: 1838-1925) was author of The Blue Grass Cook Book, an important collection of Kentucky recipes, compiled from contributions by some forty-six women, and illustrated with photographs by a young Alvin Langdon Coburn. Long before The Blue Grass Cook Book appeared, the Fox family had removed over the eastern border to Big Stone Gap, Virginia, but for many years Minnie Fox had presided over a manor house at Stony Point, in the north-central Kentucky region encompassing Bourbon County. In a handsome publisher's decorated trade binding designed by Margaret Armstrong. Fine. Inscribed by the author's sister on a preliminary blank, "To dear Doucie, from 'Minnie', X'mas 1905". Rare, thus. [BAL 6249; Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 F-343].