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.