The Wooing of Wistaria / Onoto Watanna

Book

American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

The Wooing of Wistaria / Onoto Watanna

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.314

Description

388 pages. Tissue guarded color frontis. Black and white illustrations. Text is enclosed in a black and white frame of bamboo.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

1900s

Dimensions

Height

7-3/4 in

Book Details

Author

Onoto Watanna

Edition

First

Publisher

Harper & Brothers

Place Published

City

New York

State/Province

New York

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1902

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding- Japonisme

Binding Designer

Decorative Designers

Binding Notes

Pale mint green decorated cloth binding with white, green and gilt decorations depicting a flowering wisteria branch in an Asian stylistic motif. Gilt titles to spine and cover. Unsigned cover attributed to Lee Thayer for DD by John Lehner.

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Lee Thayer

Related Places

Place

State/Province

Alberta

Country

Canada

Related Publications

Publication

American Decorated Publisher's Bindings 1872-1929. Collected and Described by Richard Minsky

Notes

Attribution to Lee Thayer/DD by Lehner, but also compare it to the signed Yeto decorations in A Japanese Nightingale.

Publication

Trade Binding Research (TBR) Newsletter

Notes

Sept. 1994, #14: lists cover as designed by DD. Also cite Lehner.