Aunt Amity's Silver Wedding and Other Stories / Ruth McEnery Stuart

Name/Title

Aunt Amity's Silver Wedding and Other Stories / Ruth McEnery Stuart

Entry/Object ID

2019.4.26

Description

[11], 228 p., [14] leaves of plates : ill.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

1900s, Art Deco

Dimensions

Height

7 in

Width

4-3/4 in

Book Details

Author

Ruth McEnery Stuart

Edition

First

Publisher

The Century Company

Place Published

City

New York

State/Province

New York

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1909

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding- Art Nouveau

Binding Designer

Decorative Designers

Binding Notes

Bound in dark green olive cloth stamped in light green and gilt in a design incorporating elements of both art nouveau and art deco. Leaving the bottom half of the cover mostly undecorated, the design is massed in the top half, creating an effect of elongation. Four bamboo stalks rise from the bottom and spread up and outward in leaf in flower. Superimposed over the foliage is a gilt bordered rectangle with author and title within in gilt and anchored in each corner by a square, stylized flower, created by the use of negative stamping. Stylized flower motif repeated to spine. Signed binding, with interlocked DD on center left of bamboo stalks. Attributed to Lee Thayer.

Notes

First printing, October 1909

Exhibition

Lobby Case Aug 2020 - Nov 2020