Lucille / Owen Meredith
Book
369 pages. 35 leaves of plates, with numerous illustrations. Tissue guarded frontis.
Text pages have pictorial borders in beige and grey.
An extremely popular binding design of the 1880s, which was issued by multiple publishers with minimal changes. This book is a quarter less inch in height than the Longfellow issued by Houghton Mifflin in the same binding.
2015.7.100
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
1880s
9-3/4 in
6-1/2 in
Owen Meredith
Troy
New York
United States
North America
circa 1880
Publisher's Binding- Gold Band Titles
Bound in olive green colored beveled cloth in a delicate line floral pattern with a left vertical panel of climbing vine with leaf and flower. Stamped in black and red. Title stamped in black to rectangular panel on cover, also on vertical length of spine. Beige floral endpapers. All edges gilt.
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