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Joyzelle and Monna Vanna / Maurice Maeterlinck

2015.7.339

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

French drama.1910s

7-3/4 in

5-1/4 in

Maurice Maeterlinck

First American

Dodd, Mead & Company

New York

New York

United States

North America

1907

Publisher's Binding- 20th Century Blind Stamping

One of the uniform bindings in the series The Works of Maurice Maeterlinck. Bound in garden green vertical ribbed cloth with a repeating pattern of leaf and lily pad to spine, front, and rear covers created by blind stamping. Gilt stamped titles to spine and cover. Top edge gilt. A contemporary, early twentieth century use of blind stamping, which was so heavily used in the 1840's to 1860's.

First American printing.

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