Consequently, although Vol. A.A.S. Dr. Presume is a 74-year old retired missionary who spent some 40 years with the Merina tribe in Madagascar. It is illustrated with full page plates, three of which were used on the front covers of Leo RulIman's last three catalogues. Frank Beard illustrated the book, but he very obviously did not do the frontispiece. I understand that issues are very rare in that only 30 copies of each issue were published.
All issues have ornate paper covers of Egyptian motif.
The editor throughout its entire span was William Andrew. It ran Vol. In all there were 14 issues of these early series. Another series was started in the 1950's, but I have very little information about it. An early and previously unrecorded American ventriloquial book has cropped up during my researches.