Through Historic Years With Eliza Ferry Leary by Wagner, Laura Virginia - 1934

Seattle: Dogwood Press, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Large 8vo. Pp. xiii, 93, [7]. Frontis. subject photo portrait. Illustrated with seven additional black & white photo reproductions on floral backgrounds. Preface by Edmond S. Meany. Multicolor floral print cloth, titles printed in reversed black on morocco label mounted in blind stamped panel on the cover, deckled fore-edge, hand sewn signatures, decorated chapter heads, title page hand colored. Board edges minimally rubbed and soiled. Life of a pioneer who arrived in Olympia, Washington Territory in 1869 at age 18 with her father Elisha Peyre Ferry who was appointed Surveyor General then first Governor by President Grant. She married businessman John Leary in 1891 and moved to Seattle where she was active in pubic affairs. Very much a Frank McCaffrey production. Frank McCaffrey's book design is usually marked by an element of flowery Victoriana, using colored paper and floral effect to evoke the background of the author, as is… Read More

Dogwood Press, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Inscribed by the author on the first blank: Best wishes for one who is ever ready to serve in any emergency (signed) Laura Virginia Wagner; with the ink stamp of the Daughters of the American Revolution / Rainier Chapeter, Seattle WA to the bottom of the front pastedown. xiii + 93pp. Illustrations, portraits. Floral cloth (original patterned bedsheets used by McCaffrey to cover the boards) with paper label mounted on the front cover. Some darkening to the extremities, and along the inner hinges, else a Very Good copy. SMITH 10663. // Early history of Seattle and Washington as seen through the life of Eliza Ferry, daughter of famed Colonel Elisha Peyre Ferry, friend of Lincoln, first Territorial Governor and first Governor of Washington state. A very handsome book, with a few, excellent illustrations.