The Grain of Dust

A brilliant corporation lawyer marries a stenographer from his own office and finds that the world he built his practice on will not receive her. Phillips wrote muckraking journalism as well as novels and was shot dead in the street by a man who believed a book had libelled his sister. This edition is bound with 51 plates of American landscape painting by Bierstadt, Kensett and Wyant, among others, and includes seven restored and coloured illustrations.