Vanderbilt Archive Ultra Exclusive Wood Boxed Gilt Leather Belle Epoch Society Register, Fads and Fancies of Representative Americans, Town Topics Publishing Company, NY, 1905, Bartlett and Company, Orr Press, limited edition copy number 90, delivered at the close of the Victorian era to the estate of William C. Whitney who was U.S. Secretary of the Navy after his death in care of his son Harry P. Whitney, Esq. at 2 W. 57th St. in Manhattan, 16 x 12.5 x 1.5 inch book, 17.5 x 14 x 3 inch heavy wooden hinged latched box, features on the societal elite include Col. John Jacob Astor, William Kissam Vanderbilt, Stanford White at the height of his popularity before his asassination at Madison Square Theater the following year, Florida East Coast Railroad owner Henry Flagler, Charles M. Schwab, C. P. Huntington, Tampa hotelier and railroad magnate Morton Freeman Plant, Presidents Grover Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, J. Pierpoint Morgan, Lorillard, Van Rensselaer, et al as well as the aforementioned William Collins Whitney. Provenance: Vanderbilt Whitney family landmark Old Westbury, Long Island, NY studio former residence of noted sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, founder of the Whitney Museum and great-granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt,

Excellent estate discovery boxed condition, box wear.