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The Master's Violin / Myrtle Reed

2015.7.272

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

1900s

8-1/4 in

Myrtle Reed

New YorkLondon

New York

United StatesEngland

North America

1904

Knickerbocker Press

1908

Publisher's Binding- Art Nouveau

Margaret Armstrong

Art nouveau gilt stamped design of intertwining iris by Margaret Armstrong. Binding is unsigned. Bound in ivory/grey cloth with elaborate gilt spine decoration and titles in gilt stamped iris design, but in variant cloth color and pale grey stamping to iris. One of a set of Reed titles which was issued at various times by Putnam, and is most commonly seen in lavender cloth. Top edge gilt. Deckled page edges.

January 1908 reprint.

Margaret Armstrong and American Trade Bindings (1991)

Gullans & Espey 205

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