Mountain Echoes Through the Catskills, Series No. 1732.

Munich and New York: Obpacher Brothers Pubishers, No date [c.1900]. Wraps. [EPHEMERA] [GIFT BOOK]. 16mo (6 5/8” x 4 ¾”); [16]pp; cream-colored stiff wrappers, chromolithograph of a man bowling in the mountains on the front, small vignette of two owls at night on rear wrapper; publisher’s gold string binding; rounded wrapper corners; all edges gilt; gift inscription on inside front wrapper; 6 chromolithographed full-page illustrations + small sepia vignette on last page; light offsetting of lithographs to text, staining on rear wrapper; very good plus.Scarce. OCLC locates copies in 3 libraries. Very good +. Item #1651

A small anthology of verse with illustrations produced as a small gift-style book. The illustrations draw their inspiration from Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle with the front wrapper featuring Rip bowling ten-pins. The theme continues with titled illustrations of scenes from the Hudson River Valley. Quotes from the poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Williams, and Crabbe form the text.

Price: $90.00