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Uncanonized: A Romance of English Monachism / Margaret Horton Potter

2015.7.268

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Fiction.History1900s

8 in

5-1/2 in

Margaret Horton Potter

First

Chicago

Illinois

United States

North America

1900

Publisher's Binding

Frederick W. Gookin

Dark green cloth with light green bordered design of four gilt candlesticks with white candles and gilt radiant flames. Motif is repeated on spine decoration which shows one candle burned down and extinguished with smoke wafting upward. Signed binding of Frederick W. Gookin: monogram is stamped in blind, in between the middle two candlesticks.

Great Britain

United Kingdom

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