There is text on the back because it was extracted from an illustrated periodical from the 19th century
This volume complete unto itself and the volume with the most engraved plates
New York by Samuel Gabriel Sons & Company
140 pages plus wrappers (w/ customer mailing envelope and order form still inside)
Originally issued as part of a limited edition and now very scare portfolio (only 4 complete copies known)
Four Addresses by Henry Lee Higginson 1902 D.B. Updike inscribed book Harvard Austro-Hungarian There is text on the(Old Books, Early 20th Century Books, Americana, Collected Speeches, Harvard University, Henry Lee Higginson). Four Addresses by Henry Lee Higginson: The Soldiers' Field; The Harvard Union I; The Harvard Union II; Robert Gould Shaw. Published 1902, Boston by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press. 106 [107] pages. Text in English. Publisher's 1 4 cloth binding, paper covered boards, deckled edges. Book inscribed in pencil on ffep Oct. 2, 1903 by