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Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness / Henry Van Dyke

2019.4.30

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

1900s

7-3/4 in

5-1/2 in

Henry Van Dyke

New York

New York

United States

North America

1900

Publisher's Binding

Margaret Armstrong

Bound in pale green smooth grain cloth with art nouveau stamped design in gilt, pale aqua, and green of an underwater scene. Green leafy plants grow from the lake bottom, with the water represented by horizontal aqua lines with extend to spine. Border and titles in gilt. Top edge gilt. Signed MA in bottom right corner. Compare to the Henry Van Dyke designed cover for Fisherman's Luck.

Copyright date 1895, later printing.

"Fisherman's Luck" 2015.7.203- binding designed by HVD after this one.

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