Dogtown: Being Some Chapters from the Annals of the Waddles Family, Set Down in the Language of Housepeople / Mabel Osgood Wright
Entry/Object ID
2019.4.36
Description
Bound for Beauty #31
xiii, 405, [3] p., 28 leaves of plates incl. frontis : 54 ill.
Write was a prolific nature writer, bird, and native plant activist, and an early proponent of protective sanctuaries. Her passion for birds and concern for degradation of the environment led her to found the Connecticut Audubon Society in 1891 and was its first president.
Collection
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Bound in light green cloth in a unique wrap-around binding featuring the identical gilt stamped heads of floppy-eared, point-nosed dogs in red collars, outlined in black. The dogs are linked together, collar to collar, by a thin gilt-stamped chain in a horizontal design across the front, spine, and rear boards. Front board has a stylized art deco design of two different sized black outlined rectangles on either side of the dogs and an offset circle, unevenly bisected. Title, author, and circle are stamped in red and outlined in black. Top edge gilt, deckled pages.
Exhibition
Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection
