Ascutney Street: A Neighborhood Story / Mrs. A.D.T. Whitney

Book

American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

Ascutney Street: A Neighborhood Story / Mrs. A.D.T. Whitney

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.205

Description

259 pages, plus 36 pages of advertising to rear. Boston Public Library has the same binding in chocolate brown with the title "A Golden Gossip" (1892).

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

1890s

Dimensions

Height

7-3/4 in

Book Details

Author

A.D.T. Whitney

Edition

First

Publisher

Houghton, Mifflin & Company

Place Published

City

Boston

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1890

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding

Binding Designer

Sarah Wyman Whitman

Binding Notes

Unsigned cover design of Sarah Wyman Whitman. Bound in dark green cloth with a morning glory vine design stamped in black that trails onto the spine. Distinctive gilt typography to cover and spine. Cover title reads Mrs. A.D.T. Whitney's Stories. Dark green stone endpapers.

Exhibition

Summer Publisher's Bindings