The Story of a Bad Boy / Thomas Bailey Aldrich
2015.7.140
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
BoysFiction.1890sSocial life and customs
8 in
5-1/4 in
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
A.B. Frost
First
Boston
Massachusetts
United States
North America
1894
Riverside Press
Publisher's Binding
Sarah Wyman Whitman
Book design by Sarah Wyman Whitman in a forest-green coarse-woven cloth with a crossed design composed of three vertical and horizontal lines with large floral outlines extending to the edge of the boards, the center of which has a gilt rectangle with the title in black. A line with the broken floral motif runs the vertical length of the spine through the center of the title, author, and publisher. This is a spine design feature that Whitman employed to great effect.
New Hampshire
United States
North America
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