Martha-Jane. Nursery Nonsense. Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill Co., 1897.
First Edition. Original oblong small Quarto, black cloth over boards, pages of stiff, thick black card-stock with white print intended to look like schoolroom slate. An extremely scarce children's book published by Bowen-Merrill and illustrated by the arts and crafts movement artist Virginia Hynson Keep, who illustrated a number of other children's books. Keep, who was born in New Orleans and worked in Illinois, had numerous contemporary art exhibits and studied under Howard Pyle. This copy inscribed and signed in white paint at front free endpaper by Martha and Helen Krag and Florence Krag Reynolds. Very Good tight copy, some minor cloth loss at lower spine end and lower front fore-edge corner.
Price: $750.00