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The Clerk of the Woods / Bradford Torrey

2019.4.28

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

1900s

7-1/8 in

4-5/8 in

Bradford Torrey

First

BostonNew York

MassachusettsNew York

United States

North America

1903

Riverside Press

Cambridge

Massachusetts

United States

North America

Publisher's Binding- Art Nouveau

Decorative Designers

Bound in olive green cloth and stamped in black and light green in a leaf and branch design that fills the entire cover, with branches extending off the edge of the board. Title and author stamped in gilt to the foreground. Undecorated spine stamped in gilt. Signed binding, interlocked DD on the bottom left of the main branch in the same light green as the leaves.

First printing, September 1903

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