This is an unusually beautifully bound book. For some reason it warranted top-flight handling. Harrison Fisher contributed 5 b&w illustrations; but more striking, each page is bracketed with scrolly plant-life by Margaret Armstrong, who also designed the binding. There are six different full color scrolls alternating throughout the book. It is a slim volume of 108 pages, and with the very heavy paper and only a paragraph or so per page, it's more of a short story length.
The first 34 pages are a prequel to the story, being a conversation among the descendants of the main characters while they are examining an old portrait.
The story itself is not particularly wonderful. I can think of many other books more deserving of this treatment.

$59. Condition: Good. [FIRST EDITION] New York: Dodd Mead & Co., 1904. Hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued?) 108 pages. Green cloth boards with detailed decoration and bright gilt lettering. Top edge gilt & untrimmed pages. Every page of text has beautiful full-color borders in varying floral patterns by Margaret Armstrong; five full-page b/w tissue-covered engravings by Harrison Fisher, including a frontispiece. Very good overall condition with slight wear to sp