Small 4to. Contemporary plum morocco gilt with outer cornerpieces in an art nouveau design with green and citrus onlays, upper cover with a central gilt monogram "CEB", spine in 6 compartments with raised bands, gilt-lettering in 2, others with central clover devices with green onlays, top edge gilt, broad turn-ins gilt, silk moiré endleaves, STAMP SIGNED BY SICKLES (spine and lower cover sunned, light rubbing to fore-corners).

LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 copies of the facsimile edition printed on imperial japan vellum, this copy unnumbered. INSCRIBED BY FIELD'S WIFE AND 5 CHILDREN who are "proud to inscribe this, his most intimate book." Eugene Field II, the elder son of the author, once worked for the Sickles bindery in Chicago as a manuscript dealer. It is well known that sometime in the 1920s he and proprietor Harry Dayton Sickles not only became the two of the most famous Abraham Lincoln forgers in history but also forged over 100 documents and signatures of authors and political figures including his father Eugene Field Sr., Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, and Rudyard Kipling among others. It is only fitting that this binding would also be a "forgery", a knock-off of a Lorenz Schwartz design. Schwartz was a notable bookbinder who spent some time in Chicago at the Monastery Hill Bindery which is presumably where Sickles was influenced for this design.

[With:] FIELD. The Collected Works. New York: Scribner's and Sons, 1914. 8 (of 12) volumes only, 8vo. Photogravure frontispieces on japan vellum, folding facsimile in vol. I. Bound uniformly with the above work (spines also sunned).