Works Henry Van Dyke! ILLUSTRATED by N.C. WYETH! SIGNED

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Album Album Album Album Album Album Album Album Album The Complete Works of Henry Van Dyke. ILLUSTRATED by: N.C. Wyeth ! *** This is the AVALON EDITION. A SIGNED/LIMITED Edition! Limited to Only 504 copies of which this is #115 Signed by the Author! A guaranteed authentic autograph of the author is found below the frontisplate. The signature is guaranteed authentic as this is standard for this edition. *** Also signed by the publisher: Charles Scribners. COMPLETE, in 18-volumes, as issued. N.C. Wyeth was the star pupil of artist Howard Pyle and became one of America's greatest illustrators . A bucking bronco for the cover of The Saturday Evening Post on February 21, 1903 was Wyeth's first commission as an illustrator. That year he described his work as "true, solid American subjects–nothing foreign about them." By 1911, N.C. Wyeth began to move away from Western subjects and on to illustrating classic literature. He painted a series for an edition of Treasure Island (1911), by Robert Louis Stevenson, thought by many to be his finest group of illustrations. The proceeds from this great success paid for his house and studio. He also illustrated editions of Kidnapped (1913), Robin Hood (1917), The Last of the Mohicans (1919), Robinson Crusoe (1920), Rip Van Winkle (1921), The White Company (1922), and The Yearling read more

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