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Modern Painters / John Ruskin

2015.7.290

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

PaintingArt1900s

6-3/4 in

4 in

John Ruskin

New YorkRahway

New YorkNew Jersey

United States

North America

circa 1900

Publisher's Binding- White Spine, Floral

Bound in a wide cream cloth spine stamped in an art deco gilt design. Pictorial paper covered boards to half of cover in branch and flowers printed in gilt and green against a subtle background stripe in faint grey and green. Top edge gilt. Binding represents a style which was extremely popular at the turn of the century, noted for white spines and repeating small flower patterns in calico-like cloth or paper - obviously marketed to the feminine buyer.

No publication date.

Susanna Beever

compiler.

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