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Maurine and Other Poems / Ella Wheeler Wilcox

2015.7.323

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

Decorated bright green cloth binding with stylized art nouveau design of rose, leaf and thorn stamped in gilt, black and red. Motif repeated to spine. Brown stone endpapers. Unsigned binding. Design 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.

Flyleaf inscription: Brock Schreiber July 24/1902

"Poems of Power" 2015.7.324

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