[xiv], 305 pp. 29 etchings and 24 photogravures. (4to) 29.5x23 cm (11½x9"), original limp parchment, lettered in gilt on front. No. 405 of 500 copies of the Subscriber's Edition.
Includes etchings by J.C. Nicoll, S.J. Ferris, F.S. Church, R. Swain Gifford, William Merritt Chase, Peter Moran, Thomas Moran, and others, after works by Pasini, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, etc. "Mary Jane Sexton Morgan was a fine and decorative arts collector. A school teacher by trade she was born and educated in New York City. Her father, Francis Sexton, was a New York City Merchant involved East Indian trade. Married in 1851, she was the second wife of Charles Morgan (1795-1878), a shipping, railroad and iron magnate also involved in the India trade. Charles Morgan owned the Morgan Line which ran between New York, New Orleans and Texas (Morgan & Garrison). He also owned Morgan Iron Works, the Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship Company and was a cousin of J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913). Mary Morgan’s 1886 Auction, conducted by Thomas E. Kirby via the American Art Galleries at New York’s Chickering Hall, was a ten day sale held between March 3-15, 1886, and totaled $1,205.090.42." - Frick Collection.