Thomas W. Lawson, Winifield M. Thompson

A finely bound first edition of The Lawson History of the America's Cup.

• Winifield M. Thompson (American).
• Thomas W. Lawson (American).
• Boston: Thomas W. Lawson, 1902.
• Quarto.
• XV; 402 pages.
• With 89 illustrated plates in color and black and white, with captioned tissue-guards. 
• Number 989 of 3000 copies thus.
• Inscribed in black ink to The Hubbardston Library.
• Elegantly bound by Conway of Halifax in navy full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to twin red labels on the spine, and further gilt decoration to spine, top edge gilt, others uncut, with pale blue endpapers and sewn headbands, housed in a custom-made cloth slipcase.

Lawson had the work privately printed and personally distributed them to libraries and institutions.