[Charles Frederick Eaton] Friendship. Private Press Text features elaborate engraved initials

Text features elaborate engraved initials and small in-text etchings as head and tail-pieces

Eaton (1843-1930) studied at the Sorbonne in Paris

Two bands at top and bottom of the spine in the style of the French

we know that #78 was Councilman's only copy

Bound in "best French levant - crushed" morocco by G

[Charles Frederick Eaton] Friendship. Private Press Text features elaborate engraved initialsFriendship. San Francisco: D. P. Elder and Morgan Shepard, 1902. Printed by Stanley Taylor Co. 16 pages. A collection of poetry, brief comments, and quotations concerning friendship. Title in red and black with title vignette, ornamental border, and quotation of Robert Louis Stevenson. Unsigned, but matches the work of Charles Frederick Eaton of The Arts and Crafts shop in Santa Barbara, California, and is on a title known to have other Eaton bindings