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Familiar London Painted by Rose Barton / Rose Barton

2015.7.215

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

1900sDescription and travel

9 in

Rose Barton

First

London

England

1904

Publisher's Binding- Art Nouveau

A.A. Turbayne

Bound in bright red decorated cloth with an art nouveau pattern of rose and stem printed in yellow, pink and green within a yellow framed border. Pattern repeats to spine. Titles in gilt to spine and front board. Top edge gilt. Signed binding, monogram in lower left corner, alongside a rose stem. This scarab design is a simplified version of Turbayne's initials. Note: Same binding and cloth as "England," another Blackie title Only difference is a different shade of pink stamping for the rose petals.

London

England

"England" Frank Fox (2015.7.?)

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