L. W. Walter Company, Chicago

Lincoln W. Walter was born in Pennsylvania in 1865. He became owner of the Monarch Book Company in 1893. In 1907 Monarch was succeeded by the L. W. Walter Company.

This firm published books for the trade in addition to subscription books, Bibles, albums, etc. This company was in business until at least 1920.

The L. W. Walter Company published one T. S. Arthur book: Ten Nights in a Bar-Room. The cover and interior is the same as the earlier Porter and Coates edition from 1882. The Walter edition was published in the 1907-1915 time frame.

It has seven glossy illustrations. The first edition Van Ingen illustrations are used as the frontispiece (picture of the tavern) and the picture next to page 32 ("Come father" bar scene).

Other illustrations also on glossy paper include:

Next to page 72- unattributed
Next to page 188 - by "B"
Next to page 126, 245, 250- by J. Rea

Cloth. Green. Silver lettering on the cover and the spine. 7.5" x 5".