[Merrymount Press] Sarah Whitman

Sarah Whitman. Boston: The Merrymount Press, 1904. First edition. Original cloth-backed printed boards, glassine dust jacket. Eulogies delivered at her memorial service, July 7, 1904. Addresses by James B. Dow, Richard C. Cabot, Thornton K. Lothrop, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and a poem by Mrs. James B. Dow. Sarah Wyman Whitman was an artist and designed many book covers for Houghton Mifflin. With the bookplate of Butler Place, the suburban Philadelphia home of Pierce Butler and Fanny Kemble Butler. Measures approx. 5.5" x 8.5". Some light rubbing and browning to edges, foxing to pages. Glassine dust jacket chipped with 4" tear at front hinge.