The Clerk of the Woods / Bradford Torrey

Name/Title

The Clerk of the Woods / Bradford Torrey

Entry/Object ID

2019.4.28

Description

viii, 280 p. : incl. index

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

1900s

Dimensions

Height

7-1/8 in

Width

4-5/8 in

Book Details

Author

Bradford Torrey

Edition

First

Publisher

Houghton, Mifflin & Company

Place Published

City

Boston, New York

State/Province

Massachusetts, New York

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1903

Printer

Riverside Press

Place Printed

City

Cambridge

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding- Art Nouveau

Binding Designer

Decorative Designers

Binding Notes

Bound in olive green cloth and stamped in black and light green in a leaf and branch design that fills the entire cover, with branches extending off the edge of the board. Title and author stamped in gilt to the foreground. Undecorated spine stamped in gilt. Signed binding, interlocked DD on the bottom left of the main branch in the same light green as the leaves.

Notes

First printing, September 1903