Social Life in Old Virginia Before the War / Thomas Nelson Page
Entry/Object ID
2019.4.23
Description
vii, 109 p. : 25 ill.
Collection
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Lexicon
Search Terms
1890s
Dimensions
Height
8 in
Width
5 in
Book Details
Author
Thomas Nelson Page
Illustrator
the Misses Cowles
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Place Published
City
New York
State/Province
New York
Country
United States
Continent
North America
Date Published
1897
Binding
Binding Type
Publisher's Binding- Art Nouveau
Binding Designer
Margaret Armstrong
Binding Notes
Bound in a dusky rose, smooth-grain cloth and stamped entirely in gilt, the design is of two andirons with a blazing log radiating warmth, depicted by a circle of rays surrounding the hearth. This is enclosed within an art nouveau border of leaf and flowers, more typical of her later work. The imagery of hearth and home is representative of the text, which waxes poetic about the loss of plantation life and the genteel South. Top edge gilt.
Signed binding, one of Armstrong's scarcer early bindings.
