Old Rose and Silver / Myrtle Reed
Book
vi, 364 p., [1] leaf of plates : 1 col. ill., music.
Tissue guarded frontis by Walter Biggs.
One of a set of uniform bindings issued at various times by Putnam. Black bordered text with red lettering on page headers.
2019.4.8
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
8 in
5-1/4 in
Myrtle Reed
Walter Biggs
G.P. Putnam's Sons
New YorkLondon
New York
United StatesEngland
North America
1909
Knickerbocker Press
1909
Publisher's Binding- Art Nouveau
Margaret Armstrong
Bound in lavender cloth with elaborate gilt spine decoration and titles. Front cover has elaborate art nouveau design stamped in silver and pink of roses climbing a trellis. Top edge gilt, deckled page edges. Signed binding, "MA" in bottom left corner of trellis.
Jan 1909 reprint.
Margaret Armstrong and American Trade Bindings (1991)
Gullans & Espey 210