[Fine Binding | Stikeman | Bruce Rogers] Obermann; Selections from Letters to a Friend

De Senancour, Etienne Pivert. Obermann; Selections from Letters to a Friend. [Two volumes.] Chosen and Translated with an Introductory Essay and Notes by Jessie Peabody Frothingham, translator of the Journal of Maurice de Guérin. Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, 1901. Limited to 300 copies, of which this is #89. Designed by Bruce Rogers. Printed in Caslon type, with woodcut vignettes to title pages. Warde 22.

Bound in full dark navy morocco by Stikeman (signed "STIKEMAN" on front turn-ins) with triple gilt rule to covers, five bands to spine with tile and author to second and third compartments, floral tool to remaining compartments. Gilt-tooled turn-ins with blue and gold endpapers, top edge gilt. Measures approx. 5.25" x 8.5".

In both volumes, bookplate of Edward Duff Balken to front pastedown, ex-library bookplate of the Hunt Library at the Carnegie Institute of Technology to front free endpapers (withdrawn), along with small "Hunt Library" stamp to recto of the page following the title page, and another small stamp on the recto of the rear free endpaper. Some minor wrinkling to leather on spine, along with light rubbing to edges, corners, and spine bands. Foxing to text.