[Fine Binding | Ringer | Holograph Poem by Eugene Field] A Little Book of Western Verse E-List 14 head and tail pieces will

head and tail pieces will be applied in accordance with the custom in vogue before the days of printing" (New England Stationer and Printer)

the doublures explode with a large border of inlaid flowers in red

the harmony of the paper with the text

consists of one hundred and ten copies on Van Gelder handmade paper and forty copies on Japan vellum

[Fine Binding | Ringer | Holograph Poem by Eugene Field] A Little Book of Western Verse E-List 14 head and tail pieces willField, Eugene. A Little Book of Western Verse. [Privately Printed for Subscribers,] 1889. Limited to 250 copies, of which this is #219. A signed, holograph poem by Field on the second flyleaf, with a small colored sketch of a girl (presumably the one mentioned in the poem): The garden may wither, the silver bird fly But what careth my little precious, or I? From her pathway of flowers that in springtime upstart She walketh the tenderer way in my