Author: (Untermeyer, Louis; Markham, Edwin; Roth, Herb; Smith, Dan; Norris, Frank L.; Landon, G. Warren; Masterson, Kate; Tyrrell, Henry; Miner, E.H.; Ross, Gordon; Conrey, L.F.; Gunn, Archie; et al)
Title: The Pleiad 1914-1915. (6 Issues of "the Pleiad" from December 1914 Through May 1915 Bound in One Volume)
Description: (New York: Pleiades Club, 1915). 1915). (New York: Pleiades Club, 1915). 1915). Good. - Small quarto, 7 inches high by 4-7/8 inches wide. Six issues, each with their own original pictorial wrappers, bound together in light gray boards backed with a brown suede spine. An illustrated pictorial title label is mounted on the front cover. The covers are soiled and the spine is heavily chipped and splitting along the joints. 143 & [3] consecutively numbered pages. These 6 issues are each illustrated with full-page color cover illustrations, numerous textual and full-page monochrome illustrations and a total of 12 tipped-in plates, including works by Dan Smith, Herb Roth, L.F. Conrey, E.H. Miner, Gordon Ross, and Archie Gunn, among others. The rear hinge is cracked. Good.

As early as 1896, a group of Greenwich Village artists, poets and other artistic and literary personalities were meeting weekly at Maria Del Prato's Italian restaurant on MacDougal Street. The group, which became known as The Pleaides Club, included Paul Du Chaillu, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, William Garrison, Clara Louise Kellogg and other luminaries among its early members. As it grew and needed larger quarters, the group first moved to the Black Cat then to the Hungaria, eventually settling in at the Hotel Brevoort in 1906. The club's mission was simply to provide a convivial and friendly audience to inexperienced artists through its weekly meetings and publication of their work in its yearbook, The Pleiad. Good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; ILLUSTRATED; POEMS; ART; ILLUSTRATIONS; COLOR PLATES; NEW YORK CITY; THE PLEIADES CLUB; DAN SMITH; HERB ROTH; ARCHIE GUNN; FRANK NORRIS; THE PLEIAD; BOUND VOLUME; YEARBOOK; YEAR BOOK; 1914-1915; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; ART; EX

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