The Tent on the Beach and Dramatic Lyrics / John Greenleaf Whittier

Book

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American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

The Tent on the Beach and Dramatic Lyrics / John Greenleaf Whittier

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.320

Description

Bound for Beauty #51 110 p., [12] leaves of plates, incl. frontis : ill. A collection of poems based on Whittier's summers at Hampton or Salisbury Beach.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

1900s

Dimensions

Height

7-1/2 in

Width

5 in

Book Details

Author

John Greenleaf Whittier

Illustrator

Charles H. Woodbury, Marcia Oakes Woodbury

Edition

First

Publisher

Houghton, Mifflin & Company

Place Published

City

Boston

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1899

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

Margaret Armstrong

Binding Notes

Bound in dark blue cloth stamped in gilt with two matching panels in an elaborate art nouveau iris and seashell design with a crab at the base of each iris. Motif repeated to spine. Top edge gilt. Plum endpapers. Also seen in green and maroon cloth. Signed Margaret Armstrong binding. Monogram to left of crab in right corner.

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Margaret Armstrong Binding Collection (Library of Congress)

Related Publications

Publication

The Art of American Book Covers 1875-1930 / Richard Minsky

Notes

Featured on page 69.

Exhibition

Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection