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.
