Modes and Manners / Max von Boehn

Book

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American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

Modes and Manners / Max von Boehn

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.358

Description

xix, 273 pages, 16 leaves of plates : 241 ill. Translated from the German. One of four volumes of fashion history.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

Clothing and dress, History, 1920s

Dimensions

Height

8-1/2 in

Book Details

Author

Max von Boehn

Edition

First UK

Publisher

J.M. Dent & Company

Place Published

City

London

Country

England

Date Published

1929

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding

Binding Designer

Unidentified Designer

Binding Notes

Signed binding "h.G". Bound in olive cloth in a repeating pattern of flowers stamped in dark green, red, and gilt surrounded by gilt stippling. Title in gilt to front cover within oval stamped in green hearts with gilt ribbon bow. Motif repeated to spine. Top edge gilt. Patterned endpapers.