Name/Title
An Island Garden / Celia ThaxterEntry/Object ID
2015.7.200Description
126 pages. 11 color plates and frontis by Childe Hassam.
Bright green slipcase with paste-on illustration.
Originally 1,000 copies of the book were published in March of 1894 and a second printing of another 1,000 was made in November of the same year. In 1902, the book was declared out of print. The 1988 re-issue is the first of the Childe Hassam edition since that time. Third printing.Collection
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' BindingsLexicon
Search Terms
Gardens, Description and travel, 1890sBook Details
Author
Celia ThaxterIllustrator
Childe HassamPublisher
Houghton, Mifflin & CompanyPlace Published
City
BostonState/Province
MassachusettsCountry
United StatesContinent
North AmericaDate Published
1894Date Printed
1988Binding
Binding Type
Publisher's Binding- Art NouveauBinding Designer
Sarah Wyman WhitmanBinding Notes
Facsimile designed by Whitman. Light green cloth with gilt art nouveau stamped decoration of five stylized long-stemmed flowers that stretch from the bottom to the top of the front cover and are repeated on the rear cover.Relationships
Related Places
Place
Location
Celia Thaxter's GardenIsland
Appledore IslandState/Province
MaineCountry
United StatesContinent
North America
