Our Northern and Eastern Birds / Edward A. Samuels
Book
600 pages. Illustrated with 6 chromolithographs and many full page black and white plates from engravings.
2015.7.114
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Birds, Birds.1880s
10 in
6-3/4 in
Edward A. Samuels
First
New York
New York
United States
North America
1883
Publisher's Binding
Stamped in black and gilt on deep blue cloth. Beveled edges. Highly decorated gilt spine with a diagonal embossed design depicting a small songbird within the title, a gilt heron at the bottom, and a soaring hawk at the top. Floral endpapers. Top edge gilt. The front cover in a ruled black border, continues the diagonal design with a songbird sitting on a branch in silhouette against a gilt sun.
United States
North America