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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. leisure hour series; Large 8vo; (xvi), 402 pages; Contents clean and complete in original pictorial cloth binding with decorative stamping in black and gold depicting a cherub perched in a web of vine leaves. Cloth rubbed and worn at spine ends and edges; all edges gilt. OCLC 291543 With illustrated title and vignettes drawn by John A. Mitchell and engraved by Henry Marsh (American, 1826-1912), a master of wood engraving. A beautifully designed book with a broad selection of entertaining literary pieces, including selections from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Leigh Hunt, Walter Savage Landor, Thomas Moore, Austin Dobson, W.M. Thackeray, Samuel T. Coleridge, Percy B. Shelly, Lord Byron, Owen Meredith, et al. The illustrator John Ames Mitchell, (1845-1918) was an American painter, etcher,engraver, author, and publisher. He attended Phillip Exeter Academy and then Harvard Medical School. Mitchell then went to France to study architecture and returned to Boston where he worked in architecture for several years. Dissatisfied with architecture, Mitchell went back to Paris to study painting and etching at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Eventually Mitchell settled in Washington Square in New York and began his career as an illustrator and etcher. Fascinated with etchings and drawings, he took his life savings and founded Life Magazine a magazine of art, humor and literature which would promote illustrative drawings. Mitchell served as both publisher and editor of that magazine from its founding in 1883 through the rest of his life. Charles Henry Jones (1848 â" 1913), American journalist and editor, was born in Georgia and joined the Confederate Army during the Civil War at the age of 15. In 1866 he moved to New York, where he edited Eclectic Magazine and Appleton's Journal for 15 years. Jones moved to Jacksonville, Florida, in 1881 and established the Florida Daily Times, which merge with its rival Florida Union to become the Florida Times-Union. A decade later Jones was editor of St. Louis Republic, St. Louis Dispatch (1895â"97) and New York World (1893â"95). He was president of the National Editorial Association.…