The Haunters of the Silences: A Book of Animal Life / Charles G.D. Roberts
2015.7.283
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
AnimalsAnecdotes1900s
8 in
Charles G.D. Roberts
Charles Livingston Bull
Boston
Massachusetts
United States
North America
1905
1918
Publisher's Binding
Charles Livingston Bull
Bound in olive green cloth with a triple gilt ruled decoration to the front cover depicting a polar bear in an arctic landscape. Design is stamped in gilt, blue, white and black and attributed to Charles Livingston Bull. The spine is decorated with a gilt stamped animal head. Deckled page edges. Illustrated end papers. Monogram "CL Bull" underneath polar bear's paw, on last section of white stamping. Note: rubbing wear to the areas that are stamped in white; a common problem with books that were stamped in white, a pigmentation that easily flaked and rubbed.
6th impression, Feb 1918.