Johnnie Courteau, and Other Poems. With Illustrations by Frederick Simpson Coburn

Johnnie Courteau, and Other Poems. With Illustrations by Frederick Simpson Coburn

Author: Drummond, William Henry (April 13, 1854 – April 6, 1907)

8vo.(5.5" x 8") 1901. Drummond, William Henry. New York and London. G.P. Putnam's Sons. Three quarter brown calf with generous corners, single gilt rule to all lether edges, over marbled boards. Spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt title to fancy gilt rule bordered black leather to the second panel, gilt author to a fancy gilt rule bordered black leather in the fourth panel, all others wit fancy gilt borders and a centered gilt floral device. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with small loss to tips. Leather rubbed at extremities; joints, bands, and corners. Title page in red and black. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, Early bookplate of John Junius Morgan to front pastedown. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and 16 plates including an engraved portrait of author.

From Wiki: William Henry Drummond (April 13, 1854 – April 6, 1907) was an Irish-born Canadian poet whose humorous dialect poems made him "one of the most popular authors in the English-speaking world," and "one of the most widely-read and loved poets" in Canada "His first book of poetry, The Habitant (1897), was extremely successful, establishing for him a reputation as a writer of dialect verse that has faded since his death.