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15 volumes. Engraved title-pages and 60 photogravures. (8vo), red and purple full morocco by Jackel of New York, gilt decorations, inner dentelles and lettering, top edges gilt. One of 612 numbered sets. First Edition.

Autograph Edition, number 28 of 612 numbered sets, signed by the publisher and editor. Tipped in-between the limitation page and the frontispiece portrait is a fine four-page autograph letter signed by Warner and a leaf of manuscript from his travel narrative In the Levant (1877).   BAL 21224.  

An outstanding example of a deluxe manuscript edition of an author's works, with a fine letter from Warner, dated Hartford Nov. 29, 1869, that discusses women's rights and Yosemite Falls. Among the illustrators are Frank T. Merrill, Edmund Garrett, Peter Newell, Dan Beard, and many of the plates are signed by the artists. This set has the curious distinction of having nine volumes bound in red morocco and six volumes in purple, though every volume is numbered 28; for some reason this was intentional.