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Addresses / Phillips Brooks

2015.7.219

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Sermons1900s

6-1/4 in

4-1/4 in

Phillips Brooks

Alcazar Classics

New York

New York

United States

North America

circa 1900

Publisher's Binding- Japonisme

Bound in gilt, blue, and lavender stamping on light green cloth. Leaves of the iris are achieved by negative stamping - using the cloth color as the leaf color- depicting a panelled scene of irises growing in reflecting water. Iris detail is repeated to spine. Indicative of Japanese influence.

No publication date.

Episcopal Church

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