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Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land: Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit / Henry Van Dyke

2015.7.309

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Authors, AmericanBiography.1900sDescription and travel

8 in

Henry Van Dyke

First

New York

New York

United States

North America

1908

Publisher's Binding- Art Nouveau

Margaret Armstrong

Unsigned Margaret Armstrong Art Nouveau design in gilt, coral, and two shades of green stamped on navy blue cloth. Gilt titles and design to spine. Notable for a lighter shade of coral, almost pink stamping and a more green, rather than blue/green stamping seen on other First Editions. One of a series of uniform bindings designed by Armstrong for Van Dyke titles issued by Scribners.

Margaret Armstrong Binding Collection (Library of Congress)

Henry Van Dyke

Margaret Armstrong

binding designer.

Palestine

The Art of American Book Covers 1875-1930 / Richard Minsky

Featured on page 66-67.

Margaret Armstrong and American Trade Bindings (1991)

Gullans & Espey 284

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