David Copperfield / Charles Dickens
Book
636 pages.
Notable for the use of a single stamping color to create the design and the alck of gilt stamping- a much less expensive production cost.
Inferior paper and printing. Example of cheap book production.
2015.7.82
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
1880s
7-1/2 in
5 in
Charles Dickens
Oxford Edition
New York
New York
United States
North America
circa 1880
Publisher's Binding- Gold Band Titles
Bound in mustard cloth stamped in black with ruled elaborate border surrounding an embossed mythical creature standing on two books and holding a third with "Oxford Edition" stamped beneath. Motif repeated to spine. Wide, gilt stamped title band to spine. Green floral endpapers.
No pub. date.