Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things / Henry Van Dyke

Book

American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things / Henry Van Dyke

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.203

Description

247 pages. 13 black and white plates. Contents: Fisherman's luck. -- The thrilling moment. -- Talkability. -- A wild strawberry. -- Lovers and landscape. -- A fatal success. -- Fishing in books. -- A Norwegian honeymoon. -- Who owns the mountains? -- A lazy, idle brook. -- The open fire. -- A slumber song.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

Fishing, 1890s

Dimensions

Height

7-3/4 in

Book Details

Author

Henry Van Dyke

Edition

Walton Edition

Publisher

Charles Scribner's Sons

Place Published

City

New York

State/Province

New York

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1899

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding- Art Nouveau

Binding Designer

Henry Van Dyke

Binding Notes

Bound in pale green cloth with art nouveau stamped design in gilt and green of fish outlined in gilt swimming among tendrils of water lilies. Horizontal motif repeated on spine. Signed HVD, [Henry Van Dyke] to cover. Armstrong did matching design for Little Rivers.

Relationships

Related Publications

Publication

Margaret Armstrong and American Trade Bindings (1968)

Notes

Attributed to Margaret Armstrong (240)

Publication

Margaret Armstrong and American Trade Bindings (1991)

Notes

Gullans and Espey reject their previous attribution to Armstrong in the second edition. "A rough imitation of Item 275 [Little Rivers]." (p. 125) The cover design is attributed to him in The Book Buyer, 19 (September 1899), 84.

Web Links and URLs

Attribution to HVD in "The Book Buyer", 19 (September 1899), p. 84