Notes: New edition. Verified from library copy with original red cloth cover, black and gold stamped design; lacks dustjacket, if any.
- Back pages include promotion of "Harper's Popular 12mo Series // Cloth, Ornamental, 75 Cents Each // With Frontispiece Portraits of Authors"; this is the first of about 20 volumes listed
- Title page shows short title orange-red, no subtitle; states 1900
- "Copyright (c) 1895, 1899, by Harper & Brothers."
- 25 plates: frontispiece photo portrait of Bangs; 24 b/w illustrations clearly signed (uncredited), not included in the pagination
- "Introductory Sketch" follows the first p.viii (which matches the 1st ed. p.viii); spans new sequence p.[iii]-xi; includes autograph signature of JKB over "Yonkers, N.Y., August 20, 1899"