Timothy's Quest: A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It / Kate Douglas Wiggin

Book

American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

Timothy's Quest: A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It / Kate Douglas Wiggin

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.209

Description

201 pages.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

Orphans, Juvenile fiction, 1890s

Dimensions

Height

7-1/4 in

Book Details

Author

Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Publisher

Houghton, Mifflin & Company

Place Published

City

Boston

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1890

Printer

Riverside Press

Place Printed

City

Cambridge

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Printed

1894

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding

Binding Designer

Sarah Wyman Whitman

Binding Notes

Unsigned binding design by Sarah Wyman Whitman. Wide dark green cloth on spine with gold title and decoration; red cloth on boards with black stamped title. Decorative border of holly leaves at the division of spine cloth and cover cloth in gilt on the front board and blind stamped to the rear.