Mead Schaeffer end paper illustrations for "Tom Cringle's Log"(1927): rare, beautifully framed antique

End Papers for Tom Cringle's Log                 By Michael Scott      Illustrations by Mead Schaeffer      New York. Dodd, Mead and Company. 1927.     IMAGE INFORMATION      Image Size: H 9.375” x W 14.00”      Matted & Framed:  H 16.375” x W 24.00”      Framed Price: $285.00      Whiteglove packaging and shipping        approximately $35.00 While studying at the Pratt Institute between 1917 and 1920, MS gained a reputation as a gifted artist. The accolades he won as a student were reinforced by Harvey Dunn and Dean Cornwell, who endorsed him for his first commissions. While still a student, A.L. Burt Company of New York hired MS to create covers and frontispieces for a boy’s adventure series L. P. Wyman was then writing. MS appears to have received a second commission as he was finishing Burt's project (c. 1921). This commission from Harcourt, Brace was to illustrate The Black Buccaneer by Stephen W. Meader. Significant questions surround this project because the illustrations