Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1890.

Reprint of a successful short story collection originally published in 1879, published in the Riverside Aldine Series. The books were originally sold at $1 per volume.

The Aldine Press was founded towards the end of the 15th century, and when Pickering began publishing in the mid 19th century, he adopted the Aldine Press emblem of an anchor to symbolise works of elegant typography and fine printing. The present American publishers “have ventured to call the series by a name which indicates that it is an American variation of the well-known English style. Representative works by those American authors who are at once of established reputation... the books carry no ornament, but rely for their beauty upon proportions and excellence of material.”

The stories include “Miss Tempy's Watchers”, “The Dulham Ladies”, “An Only Son”, “Marsh Rosemary”, “A White Heron”, “Law Lane”, “A Lost Lover”, and “The Courting of Sister Wisby”.

8vo., blue cloth gilt to spine with lettering and anchor device; pp. [xi], 8-276, [viii, ads]; small crack to upper hinge gutter; some pages roughly opened at fore-edge; a little rubbed to spine tips; a very good copy.