Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by William Orpen, John Lavery and Winslow Homer. A middle-aged farm woman, tired of keeping house for a brother who has become a famous author of rustic sketches, buys a traveling bookshop — horse, van and stock — from the little red-bearded man driving it, and takes to the roads of New England selling literature door to door. Morley was a Rhodes Scholar and a founder of the Saturday Review who adored books to the point of writing this in 1917 as a love letter to selling them. Fifty-seven plates of open road and open country by painters from Winslow Homer to George Stubbs, from shepherdesses to the Charlton Hunt, echo the wandering book pedlar's route.