Maurine and Other Poems / Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Book

American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

Maurine and Other Poems / Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.326

Description

254 pages, 4 pages of advertisements to rear for the work of Wilcox. Last page has advertisement for "Poems of Passion" with the same binding design by Armstrong. Frontis photograph of Wilcox.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

1900s

Dimensions

Height

7-3/4 in

Book Details

Author

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Publisher

W.B. Conkey Company

Place Published

City

Chicago

State/Province

Illinois

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1888

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding- Art Nouveau

Binding Designer

Margaret Armstrong

Binding Notes

Decorated dark green cloth binding with stylized art nouveau design of rose, leaf and thorn stamped in gilt, black and red. Motif repeated to spine. Brown stone endpapers. Published in many binding cloths and materials. Also other titles. See Poems of Power shown in blue cloth. Assumed later printing based on Art Nouveau design.

Notes

Flyleaf inscription: "Lin Raber"

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

2 copies "Maurine" (2015.7.323; 2015.7.325)

Notes

"Poems of Power" (2015.7.324)