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Old Rose and Silver / Myrtle Reed

2015.7.275

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

MusiciansFiction1900s

8-1/4 in

Myrtle Reed

Walter Biggs

New YorkLondon

New York

United StatesEngland

North America

1909

Knickerbocker Press

1909

Publisher's Binding- Art Nouveau

Margaret Armstrong

Art nouveau design stamped in silver and pink of roses climbing a trellis. Signed cover design by Margaret Armstrong with the initials "MA" in bottom left square. One of a set of uniform bindings issued at various times by Putnam. All are bound in pale lavender cloth with elaborate gilt spine decoration and titling. Top edge gilt. Deckled page edges.

January 1909 reprint.

Margaret Armstrong Binding Collection (Library of Congress)

United States

North America

Margaret Armstrong and American Trade Bindings (1991)

Gullans & Espey 210

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