Books published by publisher Houghton

First edition Wright III, 5014; BAL 18212 . Designed by Daniel Berkeley Updike while working for Riverside Press and a year before leaving to found Merrymount Press, which eventually grew into the most respected printing house in America. The scholar and historian of books, Susan Otis Thompson, notes the influence of the Kelmscott Press's Press Story of the Glittering Plain on Updike in this particular design. Title page in red and black ink. Publisher's device at the end. The book consists of nine character sketches of vagabonds and tramps encountered by the author. See Susan Otis Thompson, American Book Design and William Morris 78-79 . Only minor rubbing of covers. x , 191+ 1 pages. original cloth.. large 12mo..