Sketches of Tudor Hall and the Booth Family
Bel Air: Privately Printed, 1925. First edition. Black and white photographs. Full cloth. Duodecimo. 59 pages.
Tudor Hall in Bel Air, Maryland was the boyhood home of John Wilkes Booth and his siblings. The author's father grew up in the area and was a playmate of the Booth children at Tudor Hall.
This history of the house and family contains much on John Wilkes Booth and events surrounding the Lincoln assassination. There are such chapters as "The Identification of John Wilkes Booth" (after he was killed in Virginia)," "The Enid Myth" (the legend of an escaped Booth who commits suicide in Oklahoma in 1903), and "The search for Booth at Tudor Hall after the Assassination of Lincoln."
There are also brief sketches of Junius Brutus Booth and Edwin Booth, and interesting information about the house itself and its history.
Bound in dark green cloth over boards with upper board lettered in gilt. Hint of toning to endpapers, tiny rubs to spine ends. Fine condition overall.
Item #1748
Price: $125