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Maurine and Other Poems / Ella Wheeler Wilcox

2015.7.325

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

Cream cloth binding with stylized art nouveau design of rose, leaf and thorn stamped in gilt, orange and royal blue. Motif repeated to spine which is slightly darkened. Unsigned binding. 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.

"Poems of Power" 2015.7.324

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