Candle-Lightin' Time / Paul Laurence Dunbar
2015.7.230
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
African AmericansPoetry1900s
8-3/4 in
5-3/4 in
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Hampton Institute Camera Club
First
New York
New York
United States
North America
1901
University Press ; John Wilson and Son)
Cambridge
Massachusetts
United States
North America
Publisher's Binding- Art Nouveau
Margaret Armstrong
Bound in olive green linen-weave cloth in an unsigned art nouveau Margaret Armstrong binding. Spine in elaborate bright gilt stamping, cover design is stamped in black, maroon, cream, and gilt and depicts a field of flowers (cotton plants?) reaching up to a gilt moon within a black bordered frame of flowers. Top edge gilt.
Stated first edition published October 1901. Title page date of 1902, 2nd State (title in green on title-page). Owner's name to front endpaper dated 1903.
Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute
Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress)
Margaret Armstrong Binding Collection (Library of Congress)
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Margaret Armstrong
binding designer.
The Art of American Book Covers 1875-1930 / Richard Minsky
Featured on page 71.
Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection