Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving
Entry/Object ID
2017.11.24
Description
Bound for Beauty #88
xi, 218 p. : 53 ill.
Collection
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Lexicon
Search Terms
1890s
Dimensions
Height
27 cm
Book Details
Author
Washington Irving
Illustrator
George Henry Boughton
Edition
First
Publisher
Macmillan & Company
Place Published
City
London
Country
England
Date Published
1893
Printer
Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd.
Place Printed
City
London
Country
England
Binding
Binding Type
Publisher's Binding- Cranford Series
Binding Notes
Bound in dark green cloth with marvelous art nouveau gilt decoration and titles to spine and front cover featuring poppies and thistle. Green stone endpapers. All edges gilt.
Notes
Owner's bookplate to ffep: Grace M. Pugh. Handwritten owner's name on half title: Russell.
Bookbinders ticket to rear: Bound by Burns & Co.
Exhibition
Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection
