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MARS, E and M.H. Squire.
Children Of Our Town.
Ethel Mars was an American woodblock print artist, known for her white-line woodcut prints, also known as Provincetown Prints, and a children's book illustrator. She had a lifelong relationship with fellow artist Maud Hunt Squire, with whom she lived in Paris and Provincetown, Massachusetts. 30 full pages depicting scenes from the lives of children in New York City, each with a bit of accompanying verse.
- Published
- New York: R.H. Russell, 1902.
- Plates
- 30
- Binding/Size
- M=4to
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- New York: R.H. Russell, 1902.
- Ref
- 435
Limited edition 500 copies; this is a copy no. 47. Oblong Folio. Illustrations coloured by hand. Poems with illustrations. Quarter cloth binding over original brown coloured paper boards. A coloured front pastedown. Coloured plates in order: 1. Frontispiece. 2. Title page. 3. [not captioned] Two young Children. 4. Flying Kites. 5. Boats on a Lake. 6. At Coney Island. 7. In Central Park. 8. The First of April. 9. Plebeian. 10. Patrician. 11. Quarrelsomeness. 12. The Eternal Feminine. 13. Wistfulness. 14. Kindness to Animals. 15. A Cold Day. 16. Skates. 17. The Excursion Boat. 18. Evolutionary Fame. 19. Piety. 20. Wealth. 21. The Skipping Rope. 22. Music's Might. 23. A Ball Game. 24. The Rival Queens. 25. Little Mothers. 26. Other Little Mothers. 27. Fourth of July. 28. Thanksgiving Day. 29. Ice-Cream. 30. [no caption] A little girl going to bed holding a candle. (rear pastedown).
