Lot 179: STROTHMANN, FRED

N/A Original ink and wash drawing (9 x 5? in.; 229 x 133 mm), signed "Strothmann," being the frontispiece illustration for Clemens's Extracts from Adam's Diary, ca. 1904; matted, framed and glazed. In the Garden of Eden, a.k.a. Niagara Falls Park. For the frontispiece of the first edition, the German-born illustrator Fred Strothmann depicts the naked Adam at work on his diary. He chisels the entries on stone tablets while Eve and a host of creatures look on. The menagerie of approving onlookers includes a tiger, a lion, two monkeys, a squirrel, a turtle, a frog, and, of course, a smiling serpent. with: Clemens, Samuel L. Extracts from Adam's Diary, Translated from the Original Ms. New York: Harper, 1904 In 8s (8 x 5? in.; 203 x 137 mm). Frontispiece and numerous illustrations by Fred Strothmann. Publisher's red pictorial cloth; minimal wear. Publisher's yellow printed dust jacket; some soiling, chipping at extremities. First separate edition. This work first appeared in book form in The Niagara Book: A Complete Souvenir of Niagara Falls Containing Sketches ? by W. D. Howells, Mark Twain? and Others (Buffalo, 1893). References: BAL 3480; Johnson pp. 80?81 Together, 2 items