In the Bishop's Carriage / Miriam Michelson

Book

American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

In the Bishop's Carriage / Miriam Michelson

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.263

Description

280 pages. 6 black and white illustrations.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

1900s

Dimensions

Height

7-3/4 in

Book Details

Author

Miriam Michelson

Illustrator

Harrison Fisher

Edition

Reprint

Publisher

Grosset & Dunlap

Place Published

City

New York

State/Province

New York

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1904

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding

Binding Designer

Margaret Armstrong

Binding Notes

Decorated red cloth design by Margaret Armstrong. Black and cream decorations depict woven basket with flowers and ribbons to front cover. Spine titles in black with cream decoration. Signed binding: "MA" underneath the two white stamped flowers and trailing greens underneath the basket.

Notes

Flyleaf inscription: "H. A. B. Palmer. Xmas 07. Chas."

Exhibition

Summer Publisher's Bindings