In Arcady / Hamilton Wright Mabie

Book

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American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

In Arcady / Hamilton Wright Mabie

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.257

Description

127 pages. Illustrated by Will H. Low with sepia tone illustrations and decorative page borders by Hinton throughout. Contents: The pipes of the faun. -- The lyre of Apollo. -- The sickle of Demeter. -- Postlude.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

1900s

Dimensions

Height

8-3/4 in

Book Details

Author

Hamilton Wright Mabie

Illustrator

Will Hicok Low

Edition

First

Publisher

Dodd, Mead & Company

Place Published

City

New York

State/Province

New York

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1903

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding- Art Nouveau

Binding Designer

Charles L. Hinton

Binding Notes

Bound in spring green cloth hardcovers with an elaborate cover of intertwining morning glories stamped in white within a wide gilt frame arcing over a rectangular box containing the gilt stamped title. Decorated endpapers. Top edge gilt. "White, black, and gold flowers and vines on green cloth, in paper dust jacket with same design in green outline. Possibly designed by C.L. Hinton, unsigned." Minsky

Web Links and URLs

"In Arcady" on Publishers' Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books