Herford, Oliver: A Little Book of Bores. [A to Z].

London, Gay and Hancock, 1908, [4], 52 pp., [4 pp]. With 26 full-page illustrations. Kl.-8°, original cloth, gilt lettering.

Oliver Herford (1860-1935), a writer, artist, and illustrator, was born in Sheffield, England. His parents moved 1876 to Chicago and 1882 to Boston. Oliver attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio from 1877 to 1879. Later he studied art at the Slade School in London and the Académie Julien in Paris. Afterward, he moved to New York, where he lived until his death. In 1906 he wrote and illustrated the Little Book of Bores. Over 30 books illustrated by Herford, and frequently written by him as well, were published from the 1890s to the 1930s. - Edges minimally rubbed, Inner joints minimally split , else a fine copy.