Long Roll

by N.C. Wyeth, Mary Johnston

Houghton Mifflin,, 1911.. Good overall in gray cloth with gilt lettering - rubbing and soiling to the covers, and especially to the spine. Binding sturdy, contents clean. . First edition. Civil War novel, based primarily on Stonewall Jackson - in her brief introduction she states that many of the incidents from the book are based on "actual happenings, recorded by men and women writing of that through which they lived." . Illustrated with four full-color illustrations by N.C. Wyeth, including a frontispiece of Jackson, and three inserted plates. . 683 pp. Map of the Valley and Piedmont, Virginia on front endpaper and of The Region of the Seven Days' Fighting on the rear endpapers.

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1911

About the author

Newell Convers Wyeth was an American artist and illustrator. He was a pupil of Howard Pyle during the Golden Age of Illustration.

During his lifetime, Wyeth created more than 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books, twenty-five of them for the Scribner Classics, for which he is best known. The first of these, Treasure Island, was one of his masterpieces and the proceeds paid for his studio. Wyeth was a realist painter at a time when the camera and photography began to compete with his craft. Sometimes seen as melodramatic, his illustrations were designed to be understood quickly. Wyeth, who was both a painter and an illustrator, understood the difference, and said in 1908, "Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other."

He is the father of Andrew Wyeth and the grandfather of Jamie Wyeth, both well-known American painters.