Castilian Days by John Hay, 1903 Holiday Limited Edition

Author: John Hay
Title: Castilian Days by John Hay, 1903 Holiday Limited Edition
Publication: Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1903

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Hay, John
Castilian Days, Illustrated by Joseph Pennell
Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1903.
8vo (6 × 9 inches). 343 pp. Illustrated throughout with lithographs by Joseph Pennell. Bound in full red morocco over five raised bands; gilt title and author to spine; plain compartments; top edge gilt, fore-edge untrimmed; dentelles to inner covers; marbled endpapers in blue, rust, and ochre. Very good. Front hinge lightly weakened but holding; light even waviness to the text block.
LIMITED EDITION, number 247 of 350 copies.
John Hay's Castilian Days — essays on Spanish life, politics, and landscape — was first published in 1871, written during his years as secretary to Lincoln and drawing on his posting to the American legation in Madrid. This 1903 Pennell-illustrated Holiday Edition is the book's most finely produced form.
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