At Sundown / John Greenleaf Whittier

Book

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American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

At Sundown / John Greenleaf Whittier

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.208

Description

Bound for Beauty #48 70 p., [1] leaf of plates, frontis : ill. Contents: The Christmas of 1888 -- The vow of Washington -- The captain's well -- An outdoor reception -- R.S.S., at Deer Island on the Merrimac -- Burning Drift-wood -- O.W. Holmes on his eighteeth birthday -- James Russell Lowel -- Haverhill -- To G.G. -- Preston Powers, inscription for bass-relief -- Lydia H. Sigournet, inscription on tablet -- Milton, on memorial window -- The birthday wreath -- The wind of March -- To Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Between the gates -- The last eve of summer.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

American poetry, 1890s

Dimensions

Height

7-1/4 in

Width

4-3/4 in

Book Details

Author

John Greenleaf Whittier

Illustrator

Edmund H. Garrett

Publisher

Houghton, Mifflin & Company

Place Published

City

Boston

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1892

Printer

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

Place Printed

City

Cambridge

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Printed

1893

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding- Art Nouveau

Binding Designer

Sarah Wyman Whitman

Binding Notes

Top edge gilt. Bound in cream vellum-like cloth with Whitman's distinguished typography in the title above a gilt triangular art nouveau design. Enclosed within a double ruled gilt frame. Spine has darkened, a common problem with this choice of polished cream vellum-like cloth, a favorite of Whitman's.

Relationships

Related Places

Place

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Exhibition

Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection