[Fine Binding | Caxton Club | James MacDonald] Ponteach Or The Savages Of America, A Tragedy E-List 21 Salve Festa Dies

Salve Festa Dies

with a large outer border made up of interlaced gouges at each corner (done in geometric precision)

Seven bands to spine--with head and tail band in the style of the Doves Bindery--with title to the second through fourth compartments and floral tooling to remaining compartments

The illustrated title page and Arts & Crafts-influenced opening initial are especially interesting

San Francisco: Colt Press

[Fine Binding | Caxton Club | James MacDonald] Ponteach Or The Savages Of America, A Tragedy E-List 21 Salve Festa DiesRogers, Robert. Ponteach, or The Savages of America: A Tragedy. Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1914. Limited to 178 copies on Old Stratford paper. With an introduction and a biography of Robert Rogers by Allan Nevins. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Rogers, a map of the Mackinac area, a view of the Straits of Mackinac and a facsimile of the title page of Ponteach, 1766. Bound in 3 4 dark green morocco by James MacDonald Co., with two bands to