The Man With the Hoe by Edwin Markham

Frontispiece and Title

Item:: Book Club of California
Title:: The Man With the Hoe by Edwin Markham Written After Seeing Millet’s World-Famous Painting So God Made Man in His Own Image, In the Image Of God Made Him He
Author:: Edwin Markham
Illustrator:: Ray F. Coyle
Printer:: John Henry Nash/ Book Club of California
Place of Printing:: San Francisco, CA
Date of Printing:: 1916
Format:: 11 x 7.75 inches
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McCune Location:: So. 3 #1

Author and Commentators

Edwin Markham (1852-1940). American poet. Born in Oregon, he moved to northern California while a child. Markham taught in El Dorado county and became the school superintendent of the county before becoming principal of a school in Oakland, CA. He was a noted poet. Markham read his poem The Man with the Hoe in 1898 at a public reading. His most famous poem was Lincoln, the Man of the People, which was chosen to be read at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial.

Artist

Ray F. Coyle (1885-1924). American artist and muralist. Born in Iowa, he moved to Oakland, CA as a child. He received a degree from Princeton and from the University of Edinburgh. Coyle also designed the seal for the City of Austin, TX.

The Book

Unpaginated. The covers are gray with a paste-on title on the spine. Frontispiece portrait of Edwin Markham done by Roy F. Coyle, who also did the decorative borders on the pages. Tipped-in photograph of L'homme à la houe by Jean Francois Millet. The photograph was taken by Charles Peter Gabriel Moulin (1872-1945), well-known California photographer.