Flowers From Sunlight and Shade: Poems / S.B. Skelding
Name/Title
Flowers From Sunlight and Shade: Poems / S.B. SkeldingEntry/Object ID
2015.7.122Description
Bound for Beauty #19 128 p., [12] leaves of plates : col. lithographs Flower poems by various authors with each section illustrated by Skelding with a full page color floral lithograph.Collection
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' BindingsLexicon
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1880sDimensions
Height
9-1/4 inBook Details
Illustrator
Susie Barstow SkeldingPublisher
White, Stokes & AllenPlace Published
City
New YorkState/Province
New YorkCountry
United StatesContinent
North AmericaDate Published
1885Date Printed
1886Binding
Binding Type
Publisher's Binding- VictorianBinding Notes
Bound in dark green cloth. Front board is stamped in both gold and silver. An odd effect: the silvered "lowers," but not the "F," appear shaded across the top or lower half, depending on the angle of light, imitating sunlight and shade. Honeycomb stamping of large sun on front board is repeated to spine which is bright and clear. Silver stamping is likely aluminum. Note diagonal design, exaggerated lettering. Floral endpapers.Notes
Inscribed in fine, flowing hand on a front endpaper: "Emily Lord, Christmas 1886."Exhibitions
Summer Publisher's Bindings
Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection