Dogtown: Being Some Chapters from the Annals of the Waddles Family, Set Down in the Language of Housepeople / Mabel Osgood Wright

Name/Title

Dogtown: Being Some Chapters from the Annals of the Waddles Family, Set Down in the Language of Housepeople / Mabel Osgood Wright

Entry/Object ID

2019.4.36

Description

Bound for Beauty #31 xiii, 405, [3] p., 28 leaves of plates incl. frontis : 54 ill. Write was a prolific nature writer, bird, and native plant activist, and an early proponent of protective sanctuaries. Her passion for birds and concern for degradation of the environment led her to found the Connecticut Audubon Society in 1891 and was its first president.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

1900s

Dimensions

Height

7-3/4 in

Width

5-1/2 in

Book Details

Author

Mabel Osgood Wright

Edition

First

Publisher

The Macmillan Company

Place Published

City

New York

State/Province

New York

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1902

Printer

Norwood Press ; J.S. Cushing & Co. ; Berwick & Smith

Place Printed

City

Norwood

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding- Art Deco

Binding Notes

Bound in light green cloth in a unique wrap-around binding featuring the identical gilt stamped heads of floppy-eared, point-nosed dogs in red collars, outlined in black. The dogs are linked together, collar to collar, by a thin gilt-stamped chain in a horizontal design across the front, spine, and rear boards. Front board has a stylized art deco design of two different sized black outlined rectangles on either side of the dogs and an offset circle, unevenly bisected. Title, author, and circle are stamped in red and outlined in black. Top edge gilt, deckled pages.

Exhibition

Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection