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Unpaginated. With publisher's foreword and introduction by John Wesley Hill. Photographic frontispiece portrait, engraved title page, 50 etched plates, with lettered tissue-guards, by Henry Ziegler, decorative borders printed in green also by Ziegler. (4to), full brown morocco, front cover lettered in gilt, both covers gilt ruled and with gilt-tooled cowboy motifs in corners, spine gilt in six compartments with gilt-tooled cowboy motifs, elaborately gilt-stamped turn-ins, brown silk doublures and turn-ins, uncut  One of only 12 copies on handmade paper. Lincoln Memorial Edition.

Exceedingly rare presentation copy of the Lincoln Memorial Edition, signed on a special limitation page by F.W. LaFrentz, Henry Ziegler, and the publishers. This lavish volume contains 50 outstanding etchings, each plate signed by Ziegler in pencil. LaFrentz served as secretary for the Swan Land and Cattle Company of Wyoming. The etched plates by Ziegler are excellent views of life on the range and the activities of cowboys, under the best and worst of conditions. Adams Herd 1295; Merrill Aristocrat p.20.