The Love of Azalea / Onoto Watanna

Book

American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

The Love of Azalea / Onoto Watanna

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.312

Description

Bound for Beauty #67 388 pages. Color 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

8-1/4 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

Grey decorated cloth binding with pale grey, green and pale pink decorations depicting a flowering branch in an Asian stylistic motif. Pink titles to spine and cover with flower motif repeated on spine. Deckled edges.

Exhibition

Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection