“The First Christmas Tree” by Howard Pyle illustrated “The Oak of Geismar” by Henry Van Dyke in Scribner’s Magazine for December 1891. It was engraved on wood by Walter Montieth Aikman.
Ian Schoenherr is an illustrator and writer of children's books. He also makes book jackets, maps, spot and editorial illustrations, and other odds and ends. On the side, Ian is an obsessive genealogist and a specialist of Howard Pyle (1853-1911), whose work he avidly collects.
Do you have letters, photographs, books, drawings, sketches, paintings, or any primary materials of or pertaining to Howard Pyle? Would you like to know more about them? By all means, please contact me.
How much for the first print of the first christmas tree?
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