Wanted: A Chaperon

Title: Wanted: A ChaperonAuthor: Ford, Paul LeicesterPublication: New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1902.Description: First edition. Binding and decorative borders around the text designed by Margaret Armstrong. Full-page color illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy. Bound in full green cloth stamped in gilt, dark green, and white. 9 x 6 inches; [8], 109, [3] pages (first leaf blank), [6] leaves of plates. Bookplate of former owners Harvey Leslie Taylor and Lucelle Rhees Taylor, a Mormon couple from Utah. Ownership signatures on the front pastedown and half-title. Moderate wear and soiling to the covers, but the cover design intact; one plate separated from the binding, but present. Very Good.