Folio. 8 black and white plates by Russell. Loose in original printed envelope as issued (edge wear with a few old cellotape repairs). Provenance: Goodspeed's Book Shop (letter from Renner (see below) to proprietor Baily Bishop); John C. Gernon (letter from Goodspeed's).

A RARE COMPLETE SUITE OF RUSSELL PRINTS, issued to promote Frances Parker's Hope Hathaway, a Western Story of Montana ranch life (1904), and was to be given to purchasers of the first 5000 copies of the book, which cost $1.50, or to be sold in art stores at $8 a set. In a letter included with this set, the Russell bibliographer, F.G. Renner, writes to Bailey Bishop of Goodspeed's Book Shop mentioning that he has seen "only four complete sets...plus one partial set, in the thirty-five years [he has] been searching for and collecting Russell material." He goes on to say that the only complete set whose location he knows of is in his own collection. Yost and Renner, p.137 (no. 2 portfolio listed).