Sun and Shadow in Spain, with Pictures from Photographs and Illustrations in Color
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1908, November. First Edition. Cloth. [WOMAN AUTHOR]. First edition. 8vo; xiii, [i], [1]-411, [1]pp + [1]pp publisher’s ad; red cloth over board, gilt stamped lettering and vignette of a building courtyard on front, gilt lettering on spine; gilt top, fore-edge and bottom untrimmed; color fp with tissue guard; 36 b&w halftone plates; light edge wear, light age-toning; very good. Very good. Item #1901
A wonderful early 20th-century guidebook to Spain accompanied by photographic illustrations. The author, Maud Howe Elliott (1854-1948), was the daughter of noted abolitionists Julia Ward Howe and Samuel Gridley Howe. She married the English artist and muralist John Elliott in 1887, but published this first edition under her maiden name. In 1917 she won the Pulitzer Prize with her sisters for the biography of their mother. She was a founding member of the Newport Art Association, the Progressive Party, and took part in the suffrage movement. (Wikipedia.).
Price: $300.00