Decennial Record of the Class of 1896 Yale College

New York: De Vinne Press, 1907. Octavo (22cm); top-edge gilt; fore-edge untrimmed; 922pp; colorful frontispiece, with black-and-white photographic (halftones) illustrations and drawings throughout. New Jersey Historical Society bookplate, signed the gift of Prof. Charles G. Rockwood, Jr., on front pastedown, with the Society's ownership stamp blind embossed to title page. Some pages of text unopened. Surface scratches to spine and gilt top-edge, with light soil to covers and occasionally to interior; Very Good.

Gift bookplate signed by Charles Green Rockwood Jr., who graduated from Yale Univeristy in 1864, and later published History of the (truncated) Class of 1864, Yale College and The Supplement to the History of the Class of 1864, Yale College. He was also member, and first secretary, of the American Metrological Society. This collection, published for the Class, is Day's first book. Text contains Henry Selden Johnston's "Undergraduate Days", Herbert E. Gregory's "Some Yale Problems", and republished from The Sun are Articles about Pop Smith and Eddie Oakley. Illustrations include 12 pages of black-and-white comic drawings, titled "The Curious Recollections of Edwin Oviatt (A Series of Drawings)". [84766]. (Inventory #: 84766)