The Story of a Bad Boy / Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Name/Title

The Story of a Bad Boy / Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.140

Description

Bound for Beauty #47 286 p. : ill.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

Boys, Fiction., 1890s, Social life and customs

Dimensions

Height

8 in

Width

5-1/4 in

Book Details

Author

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Illustrator

A.B. Frost

Edition

First

Publisher

Houghton, Mifflin & Company

Place Published

City

Boston

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1894

Printer

Riverside Press

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding

Binding Designer

Sarah Wyman Whitman

Binding Notes

Book design by Sarah Wyman Whitman in a forest-green coarse-woven cloth with a crossed design composed of three vertical and horizontal lines with large floral outlines extending to the edge of the boards, the center of which has a gilt rectangle with the title in black. A line with the broken floral motif runs the vertical length of the spine through the center of the title, author, and publisher. This is a spine design feature that Whitman employed to great effect.

Relationships

Related Places

Place

State/Province

New Hampshire

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Exhibition

Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection