Wanted- A Chaperon / Paul Leicester Ford
Book
109 pages. Illustrated with 6 leaves of colored full page tissue guarded plates. Art Nouveau bordered text illustrations to each page by Armstrong. Stated First Edition.
Also seen in light lavender cloth with purple, blue, and white floral designs.
2015.7.236
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Upper classFiction1990s
9 in
Paul Leicester Ford
Howard Chandler Christy
First
New York
New York
United States
North America
1902
Publisher's Binding- Art Nouveau
Margaret Armstrong
Bound in bright green cloth with Art Nouveau signed binding by Armstrong in dark green and white with bordered title in gilt. Gilt titles and nouveau design to spine. Top edge gilt. Issued as a companion volume to Wanted - A Matchmaker, Ford's book published by Dodd, Mead two years earlier. It is one of the more desired Margaret Armstrong books, since she provided not only the cover design but also the margin decoration for each page.
New York
New York
United States
North America