Tiverton Tales / Alice Brown

Book

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American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

Tiverton Tales / Alice Brown

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.145

Description

Bound for Beauty #46 339 p. A collection of short stories about the fictitious New England village of Tiverton. Contents: Dooryards; A March Wind; The Mortuary Chest; Horn-o'-the-moon; A Stolen Festival; A Last Assembling; The Way of Peace; The Experience of Hannah Prime; Honey and Myrrh; A Second Marriage; The Flat-Iron Lot; The End of All Living.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

Short stories, 1890s

Dimensions

Height

7-1/2 in

Book Details

Author

Alice Brown

Edition

First

Publisher

Houghton, Mifflin & Company

Place Published

City

Boston

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1899

Printer

Riverside Press ; Electrotyped and printed by H.O. Houghton & Co.

Place Printed

City

Cambridge

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding- Art Nouveau

Binding Designer

Sarah Wyman Whitman

Binding Notes

Dark green decorative cloth binding design of iris flowing in pale green and rich purple outlined in gilt within an enclosed overlay of gilt circles. Spine has distinctive gilt rules. Unsigned binding design by Sarah Wyman Whitman.

Relationships

Related Places

Place

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Related Publications

Publication

American Decorated Publisher's Bindings 1872-1929. Collected and Described by Richard Minsky

Notes

Volume 3 "Her integration of Arts and Crafts with Art Nouveau continued, seen here in the 1899 cover for the Tiverton Tales. Thanks to Sue Allen for discovering via correspondence that SWW based the central motif for this on a design by Margaret La Farge, the unmarried daughter of her mentor, artist John La Farge. John La Farge played an important role as inspiration to American book cover designers. A leader in the integration of fine and decorative arts, as well as being a book illustrator, he knew and taught several of the younger cover artists, including Alice C. Morse and Margaret Armstrong, as well as Sarah Whitman."

Web Links and URLs

PDF of American Decorated Publisher's Bindings 1872-1929, Minsky.

Exhibition

Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection