Familiar London Painted by Rose Barton / Rose Barton
Entry/Object ID
2015.7.215
Description
208 pages. Illustrated with 61 color plates with tissue guards.
Collection
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Lexicon
Search Terms
1900s, Description and travel
Dimensions
Height
9 in
Book Details
Author
Rose Barton
Edition
First
Publisher
A. and C. Black
Place Published
City
London
Country
England
Date Published
1904
Binding
Binding Type
Publisher's Binding- Art Nouveau
Binding Designer
A.A. Turbayne
Binding Notes
Bound in bright red decorated cloth with an art nouveau pattern of rose and stem printed in yellow, pink and green within a yellow framed border. Pattern repeats to spine. Titles in gilt to spine and front board. Top edge gilt.
Signed binding, monogram in lower left corner, alongside a rose stem. This scarab design is a simplified version of Turbayne's initials.
Note: Same binding and cloth as "England," another Blackie title Only difference is a different shade of pink stamping for the rose petals.
