Candle-Lightin' Time / Paul Laurence Dunbar

Book

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American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

Candle-Lightin' Time / Paul Laurence Dunbar

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.230

Description

Bound for Beauty #33 127 p. : ill. Distinctive title page printed in black and green reads "Illustrated with photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club and decorations by Margaret Armstrong." Stunning black and white photos chronicle a vanished way of life among Southern African-American families at the turn of the century. The equally distinctive text features a green wreath of floral decoration surrounding a Dunbar poem, with the opposite page featuring a photograph. Contents: Dinah kneading dough -- Dat ol' mare o' mine -- A spring wooing -- The old front gate -- Fishin' -- When dey listed Colored soldiers -- Lullaby -- Song of summer -- At candle-lightin' time.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

African Americans, Poetry, 1900s

Dimensions

Height

8-3/4 in

Width

5-3/4 in

Book Details

Author

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Illustrator

Hampton Institute Camera Club

Edition

First

Publisher

Dodd, Mead & Company

Place Published

City

New York

State/Province

New York

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1901

Printer

University Press ; John Wilson and Son)

Place Printed

City

Cambridge

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding- Art Nouveau

Binding Designer

Margaret Armstrong

Binding Notes

Bound in olive green linen-weave cloth in an unsigned art nouveau Margaret Armstrong binding. Spine in elaborate bright gilt stamping, cover design is stamped in black, maroon, cream, and gilt and depicts a field of flowers (cotton plants?) reaching up to a gilt moon within a black bordered frame of flowers. Top edge gilt.

Notes

Stated first edition published October 1901. Title page date of 1902, 2nd State (title in green on title-page). Owner's name to front endpaper dated 1903.

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute

Person or Organization

Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress)

Person or Organization

Margaret Armstrong Binding Collection (Library of Congress)

Person or Organization

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Person or Organization

Margaret Armstrong

Notes

binding designer.

Related Publications

Publication

The Art of American Book Covers 1875-1930 / Richard Minsky

Notes

Featured on page 71.

Exhibition

Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection