The Ring and the Book / Robert Browning
2015.7.146
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Executions and executioners1890sPoetryHistory
8-1/4 in
Robert Browning
Charlotte Endymion PorterHelen Archibald Clarke
Luxembourg Classics
Thomas Y. Crowell & Company
New YorkBoston
New YorkMassachusetts
United States
North America
1897
Norwood Press ; J.S. Cushing & Co. ; Berwick & Smith
Cambridge
Massachusetts
United States
North America
Publisher's Binding
Decorative Designers
Unsigned binding, likely Henry Thayer/Decorative Designers. Gold and off-white repeating pattern of an open book stamped in off-white within interlocking gold rings on vertically ribbed dark olive green cloth. Pattern repeated on spine. Top edge gilt.
Guido Franceschini
Pompilia Franceschini
Rome
Italy
Compare to cloth color of same title in light olive green cloth (2015.7.147). This one has a much stronger contrast to the stamping.
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