Robert Burns's Complete Poetical Works / Robert Burns
2015.7.223
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
1900s
7-1/4 in
5 in
Robert Burns
New York
New York
United States
North America
circa 1900
Publisher's Binding- White Spine, Floral
Bound in a wide white cloth spine stamped in an embossed gilt floral design. With glazed pictorial paper covered boards to cover in a branch and flower design printed in gilt, blue, and green against a cream background. All edges gilt. 636pp. Binding represents a style which was extremely popular at the turn of the century noted for white spines and repeating small flower patterns in calico-like cloth or paper - obviously marketed to the feminine buyer.
No publication date. Owner's name and location erased from title page (Toledo, Ohio) still legible
Alexander Smith
index, memoir.
"Robert Burns's Complete Poetical Works" (2015.7.222)- Different floral paper.