Reminiscences Of A Very Old Man 1808-1897. John Sartain. New York: D. Appleton, 1899.
1sts edition tall 8vo. Octavo. xi, [1], 297 pages. Frontispiece photograph of the author in his 89th year. Illustrated. Green cloth hardcover with gilt title and and black illustration on the front cover and spine. Gilt top edge. Light shelf wear to binding. Sartain was an engraver and an illustrator, a colleague and friend of Edgar Allan Poe. He engraved the famous Bingham?s County Election and Martial Law, many fabulous folios of the century. Sartain chronicles life in London at the dawn of a new age up until the dawn of the modern 20th century.