Farm Ballads / Will Carleton

Name/Title

Farm Ballads / Will Carleton

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.225

Description

Bound for Beauty #64 147 p., [1] leaf of plates, frontis : ill. "New Edition from Plates."

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

1900s

Dimensions

Height

7-1/2 in

Width

5 in

Book Details

Author

Will Carleton

Edition

First

Publisher

Harper & Brothers

Place Published

City

New York

State/Province

New York

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1910

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding- Poster Style

Binding Designer

Thomas Watson Ball

Binding Notes

Bound in a deep purple smooth cloth in a striking double ruled binding with a small central rectangular ruled flat poster-style illustration of fields, sky, clouds, and red-roofed farm buildings, stamped in two shades of green, yellow, and red. Tissue Guarded Frontis.With the very rare dust jacket. Binding should be compared with the earlier First Edition of 1873. Unsigned binding, attributed to Thomas Watson Ball by Minksy

Notes

First edition of the re-issue. Originally published in 1873.

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

Compare with 1870s binding (2015.7.47)

Related Publications

Notes

Minsky, R. Book cover art of Thomas Watson Ball, page 37

Exhibition

Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection