Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness / Henry Van Dyke

Book

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American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness / Henry Van Dyke

Entry/Object ID

2019.4.30

Description

viii, 291 p. incl. index, [31] leaves of plates incl. frontis : ill. This binding by Armstrong precedes the blue art nouveau design for the same title.

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

Henry Van Dyke

Publisher

Charles Scribner's Sons

Place Published

City

New York

State/Province

New York

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1900

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding

Binding Designer

Margaret Armstrong

Binding Notes

Bound in pale green smooth grain cloth with art nouveau stamped design in gilt, pale aqua, and green of an underwater scene. Green leafy plants grow from the lake bottom, with the water represented by horizontal aqua lines with extend to spine. Border and titles in gilt. Top edge gilt. Signed MA in bottom right corner. Compare to the Henry Van Dyke designed cover for Fisherman's Luck.

Notes

Copyright date 1895, later printing.

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Notes

"Fisherman's Luck" 2015.7.203- binding designed by HVD after this one.