Author: EMERSON, CHARLES WESLEY, FOUNDER OF THE EMERSON COLLEGE OF ORATORY, BOSTON, MASS. [ LEO POLITI ]
Title: Physical Culture [ WITH Leo Politi - designed Bookplate ]
Description: Chickeringhall, Huntingdon Ave. Boston, Emerson College Publishing Company. 1913, Twelfth Edition. Hardback small 4to. 180mm x 210mm tall (7" x 8.5" approx.). Pp ix, 154, + 37 single-sided plate leaves with an illustration in b/w or line, of a woman in classical garb striking various poses, + tissue-guarded b/w frontispiece photograph of the Author, + 1p Publisher's advert + 3pp blanks. Very minor rubs to edges and corners, otherwise very good, in the original light-blue cloth-covered boards/sillver decorated titles, with gilt-on-white figure of a man in toga to front board/all page edges gilt. WITH the striking ex-libris [or bookplate] of one Martha Roxana Christianson, with the design of a sail-assisted, four-oared galley at sea, by Leo Politi.

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