A BOOK OF SWEETHEARTS: PICTURES BY FAMOUS AMERICAN ARTISTS
New York: Grosset & Dunlap (Bobbs-Merrill), 1908. Hardcover. Large Quarto. Olive green cloth over boards with full paste-on of a Harrison Fisher portrait of a lovely raven-haired lass with ruffled lace collar and "come hither" eyes. Rubbing to extremities
A book of flowery pink thorned rose images and flowery romantic quasi-poetic verse illustrated with 12 GORGEOUS full-page color portraits of sexy and confident women (painted by men, of course!), and smaller color in-text portraits throughout. Artists include Howard Chandler Christy, Harrison Fisher, Clarence T. Underwood, and F. Graham Coates.
Book is dedicated thusly: "I have known many, Likied a few, Loved one -- Here's to you!" Good Plus. Item #100881
"They may talk of love in a cottage,
And bowers of trellised vine,
Of nature bewitchingly simple,
And milkmaids half divine.
But give me a sly flirtation
By the light of a chandelier --
With music to play in the pauses,
And nobody very near..."
Price: $85.00