Wood - Engraving And The Century Prizes

NY: The Century Company, 1882. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 10pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 7 examples, first page-only was damaged and is here presented in reproduction, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XXIV, No. 2, June, 1882. The winning entries in the contest held by Century Magazine. Winners include first place, Florence W. Richardson, second place, W. F. McGrath, age seventeen, of Boston, Massachusetts, third place, John S. Marquand, age seventeen, of New York, honorable mentions Herbert F. Lyouns, of Boston, Massachusetts, F. J. L. McCann, of Boston, Frank A. White, of Jersey City, New Jersey, Mrs. E. M. A. Heth, of Richmond, Virginia, general mentions Miss Ada Bampton, of New York, Charles P. Marshall, of Lafayetteville, NY, and Miss Edith M. Hart, of NY, and awards for previous competitors William H. Mackay, age seventeen, from Boston, C. H. Latham, Hiram P. Barnes, of Waltham, MA, M. L. Brown, of Brookline, MA, J. E. Provine, of Chicago, Illinois, Miss M. L. Owens, of New York, and P. Aitkin, of NY. Illustrations include Milk - Carrier, by Richardson, The Morning Song, by Marquand, Laughing Girl, by Lyouns, Landscape, by White, On The Threshold, by Bampton, Photograph from Life, by Mackay, and Sheep, by Latham. Housed in protective mylar report cover..