The Legatee / Alice Prescott Smith

Book

American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

The Legatee / Alice Prescott Smith

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.296

Description

324 pages.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

1900s

Dimensions

Height

8 in

Book Details

Author

Alice Prescott Smith

Edition

First

Publisher

Houghton, Mifflin & Company

Place Published

City

Boston

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1903

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding

Binding Designer

Decorative Designers

Binding Notes

Dark green decorated cloth with gilt titles to spine. Cover depicts forest in green cloth with swirling flames of forest fire in two shades of orange in background. Signed binding of Decorative Designers, monogram on right edge, in the bottom of the flames. Design attributed to Lee Thayer.