FIELDS, JAMES T.
Yesterdays With Authors. London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Low and Searle, 1872.

2 vols. 8vo, bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in full red morocco, gilt-lettered and -tooled spines, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., portrait frontispiece, extra-illustrated with 102 plates. Autograph letter signed ("James T. Fields"), 5pp., Boston, December 6, 1853, to Miss Mitford, tipped in Part 1; two original royalty checks from Ticknor and Fields, signed on the verso by contributing authors, Lydia Maria Child (Part I) and Alice Cary (Part 2), tipped into page mount, and an Mr. J.T. Fields calling card, autographed on the verso, with a note admitting a lady to an event, Hawthorne Hall, laid into Part I. Some light chipping to heads of spine.