Lady Baltimore / Owen Wister

Book

American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

Lady Baltimore / Owen Wister

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.328

Description

406 pages, plus advertisements. Frontis and 12 black and white plates. Bookstore stamp--Old Corner Book Shop, Bromfield St, Boston.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

1900s

Dimensions

Height

7-3/4 in

Book Details

Author

Owen Wister

Illustrator

Vernon Howe Bailey, Lester Ralph

Edition

First

Publisher

Macmillan & Company

Place Published

City

New York, London

State/Province

New York

Country

United States, England

Continent

North America

Date Published

1906

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding

Binding Notes

Bound in a fine-ribbed olive green cloth with wrap-around view of Baltimore from the water stamped to the top of the book on all sides. Distinctive title to spine and cover stamped in darker green and outlined in gilt.

Notes

Published April 1906.

Exhibition

Lobby Case Aug 2020 - Nov 2020