Maurine and Other Poems / Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Book
254 pages, 4 pages of advertisements to rear for the work of Wilcox. Last page has advertisement for "Poems of Passion" with the same binding design by Armstrong. Frontis photograph of Wilcox.
2015.7.326
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
1900s
7-3/4 in
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Chicago
Illinois
United States
North America
1888
Publisher's Binding- Art Nouveau
Margaret Armstrong
Decorated dark green cloth binding with stylized art nouveau design of rose, leaf and thorn stamped in gilt, black and red. Motif repeated to spine. Brown stone endpapers. Published in many binding cloths and materials. Also other titles. See Poems of Power shown in blue cloth. Assumed later printing based on Art Nouveau design.
Flyleaf inscription: "Lin Raber"
2 copies "Maurine" (2015.7.323; 2015.7.325)
"Poems of Power" (2015.7.324)