The Love of Azalea / Onoto Watanna

Book

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American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

The Love of Azalea / Onoto Watanna

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.311

Description

388 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) Note: Frontis, 6 color plates and text background decorations by Gazo Foudji.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

1900s

Dimensions

Height

9 in

Width

6 in

Book Details

Author

Onoto Watanna

Illustrator

Gazo Foudji

Edition

First

Publisher

Dodd, Mead & Company

Place Published

City

New York

State/Province

New York

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1904

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding- Japonisme

Binding Designer

Decorative Designers

Binding Notes

Blue grey decorated cloth binding with white, green and pale pink decorations depicting a flowering branch in an Asian stylistic motif. Gilt titles to spine and cover with flower motif repeated to spine. In original box with blue and white bamboo illustrations with blue titles. Book is in original glassine wrapper which is also printed with matching blue titles and price of $2.00 net. Top edge gilt. Deckled edges.

Exhibition

Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection