THE SIEGE OF THE SEVEN SUITORS. Illustrated by C. Coles Phillips and Reginald Birch.

pp. iv, 400 +Plus color frontis and illustrations throughout. 12mo. 200mm. Original publisher's pictorial full blue-green cloth binding decorated in white, gray, black green, and blue and lettered in white. Decoration depicts seven dapper men behind a wall all headed in same direction set against a blue sky with a white cloud. Spine lettered in white. Cover color bright. Spine faded and rubbed. Corners bumped and frayed. Contents clean. Hardbound. Very Good. Indiana born Meredith Nicholson (1866-1947) was a best-selling author, politician, and diplomat. Clarence Coles Phillips (1880-1927) was an American artist and illustrator who signed his early works C. Coles Phillips, but after 1911 worked under the abbreviated name, Coles Phillips. He is known for his stylish images of women and a signature use of negative space in the paintings he created for advertisements and the covers of popular magazines. Reginald Bathurst Birch (1856-1943) was an English-American artist and illustrator. He was best known for his depiction of the titular hero of Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1886 novel 'Little Lord Fauntleroy' which started a craze in juvenile fashion. While his illustrated corpus has eclipsed his other work, he was also an accomplished painter of portraits and landscapes. NW62