Creator
Lee Fairchild.
Title
The Tippler’s Vow.
Coverage
New York:
Publisher
Croscup & Sterling,
Date
1901
Subject
Drypoint illustrations by Romanian artist Jean Paleologue.
Description
Like many of Zoe’s hard-partying friends, Lee Fairchild (best man at her 1902 wedding) was penniless despite prolifically publishing. This 25-stanza poem (modeled after circa-1900 editions of Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) muses on alcohol’s ruinous temptations. Lee Fairchild also issued a Tippler’s Vow edition with his own company, Ye Olde Arden Press, and wrote a library catalog (published by Edwin C. Hill) for Massachusetts bibliophile Caroline Furbush. His magazine The Thistle is in the breakfront here.
Source
From the Collection of Eve M. Kahn.