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The Wooing of Wistaria / Onoto Watanna

2015.7.314

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

1900s

7-3/4 in

Onoto Watanna

First

New York

New York

United States

North America

1902

Publisher's Binding- Japonisme

Decorative Designers

Pale mint green decorated cloth binding with white, green and gilt decorations depicting a flowering wisteria branch in an Asian stylistic motif. Gilt titles to spine and cover. Unsigned cover attributed to Lee Thayer for DD by John Lehner.

Lee Thayer

Alberta

Canada

American Decorated Publisher's Bindings 1872-1929. Collected and Described by Richard Minsky

Attribution to Lee Thayer/DD by Lehner, but also compare it to the signed Yeto decorations in A Japanese Nightingale.

Trade Binding Research (TBR) Newsletter

Sept. 1994, #14: lists cover as designed by DD. Also cite Lehner.

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