[Manuscript] Golden Wedding celebration - Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Hilton Scribner, Inglehurst, Yonkers-on-Hudson ... 1906

Yonkers [ NY ]: Not published, 1906. Unique.. Contemporary (1907) three quarter morocco; signed binding.. A very good copy with a brown spot on the rear cover appx. 1.5 inches in diameter.. Large 4to,196 leaves. There are watercolors and photographs to accompany the manuscript.

Gilbert H Scribner was the Sect'y. of State for New York, wealthy, and part of the social blue book. In 1906 he and his wife, Sarah Woodbury Pettingill, celebrated their golden anniversary. This volume is a compilation of the event ephemera, i.e., the scores of cards, greetings, and sentiments of the occasion. It is an elaborate example of period book production. The binding was commissioned and executed by Ralph Randolph Adams; it bears his studio stamp on the inside front cover with the date 1907. The illustrations accompanying the text are original watercolors - with one particularly fetching rendering of the Hudson River looking south from the residence at Inglehurst. In additon to the full page watercolors there are a series of photographs of the life of the couple. The major portion of the 'text' is made up of mounted ALs's that were sent to the couple for their celebration. The narrative portion of the chronicle is all calligraphy.