The Roadmender; Illustrated With Photographs by Will F. Taylor

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1922. Hardcover. Orig. three quarter green morocco and green cloth and marbled endpapers. Teg. Near fine. 121 pages. 25.5 x 19.5 cm. Illustrated with 20 photographs, bound from the Edinburgh sheets. The philosophical musings of a rural English laborer: "The swift stride of civilization is leaving behind individual effort, and turning man into the Daemon of a machine." Book plate of John Michael Kauffmann, one of America's pioneering conservationists, also a diplomat, author philanthropist, bibliophile and angler. Raised bands, spine panels richly gilt in floral motifs.