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Wanted A Chaperon; by Paul Leicester Ford, author of Janice Meredith, etc.
; with illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy; decorations by Margaret Armstrong; Dodd Mead & Company, New York, 1902.
First edition published October 1902.
Paul Leicester Ford (1865 - 1902) was an American novelist and biographer.
Ford was the great-grandson of Noah Webster and the brother of historian Worthington C.
Ford.
He wrote of the lives of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and others, edited the works of Thomas Jefferson, and wrote a number of novels which had considerable success, including The Honorable Peter Stirling, Story of an Untold Love, Janice Meredith, Wanted a Matchmaker, and Wanted a Chaperon.
Howard Chandler Christy (1872 - 1952) was an American artist and illustrator.
Famous for the "Christy Girl" - a colorful and illustrious successor to the "Gibson Girl" - Christy is also widely known for his iconic WWI military recruitment and Liberty loan posters, along with his 1940 masterpiece titled, Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States, which is installed along the east stairwell of the United States Capitol.
Margaret Neilson Armstrong (1867-1944) was a 19th and early 20th-century American book cover designer, illustrator, and author.
She is best known for her book covers influenced by Art Nouveau.
She designed more than 314 book covers and book bindings, about half of which were for Scribner's.
She has been called "the most productive and accomplished American book designer of the 1890s and early 1900s".
She most likely designed the cover of this book.
This book, 125 pages, is in very-good condition.
The cover and spine decorations are very attractive, flowers and vines in white and gold on the green cloth.
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