Familiar London Painted by Rose Barton / Rose Barton
Book
208 pages. Illustrated with 61 color plates with tissue guards.
2015.7.215
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
1900sDescription and travel
9 in
Rose Barton
First
London
England
1904
Publisher's Binding- Art Nouveau
A.A. Turbayne
Bound in bright red decorated cloth with an art nouveau pattern of rose and stem printed in yellow, pink and green within a yellow framed border. Pattern repeats to spine. Titles in gilt to spine and front board. Top edge gilt. Signed binding, monogram in lower left corner, alongside a rose stem. This scarab design is a simplified version of Turbayne's initials. Note: Same binding and cloth as "England," another Blackie title Only difference is a different shade of pink stamping for the rose petals.
London
England
"England" Frank Fox (2015.7.?)