[Fine Binding | Knickerbocker Press Bindery] The Adventures of Captain Bonneville

Irving, Washington. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West. Digested from His Journal and Illustrated from Various Other Sources [Two vols.]. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1898. The "Colorado Edition" (noted at the bottom of both spines). Decorative title page in metallic red and gilt, with gilt borders to all pages of the text. Tipped-in B&W illustrations on fine China paper with tissue guards. Including a ten-panel folding territorial map, colored in red, at the rear of vol. 2. Bound by the Knickerbocker Press bindery [unsigned] in "best French levant, crushed" morocco with small gilt decorations to the corners of the covers, along with title and author to the spine. Leather joints, wide gilt-decorated dentelles, and deep red suede doublures & flyleaves, with central images of a beaver ringed by a necklace of claws stamped in gilt. Top edges gilt, uncut edges. Measures approx. 7.25" x 10.5". Corners bumped, along with some small spots of rubbing. Some light marks and small scuffs to covers. Spotting to bottom page edges of vol. 2.