The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table / Oliver Wendell Holmes
Entry/Object ID
2015.7.163
Description
Bound for Beauty #50
Two volume set.
474 p.
Collection
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Lexicon
Search Terms
Essays, 1890s, Wrap-around binding
Dimensions
Height
8 in
Width
5-1/4 in
Parts
2015.7.163a- Volume I
2015.7.163b- Volume II
Book Details
Author
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Illustrator
Howard Pyle
Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin & Company
Place Published
City
Boston
State/Province
Massachusetts
Country
United States
Continent
North America
Date Published
1893
Printer
Riverside Press ; Electrotyped and printed by H.O. Houghton & Co.
Place Printed
City
Cambridge
State/Province
Massachusetts
Country
United States
Continent
North America
Date Printed
1897
Binding
Binding Type
Publisher's Binding
Binding Designer
Sarah Wyman Whitman
Binding Notes
Unsigned binding attributed to Sarah Wyman Whitman. Volumes bound in a matching brick red linen-grain cloth in a distinctive Whitman mirror-image binding to front and rear employing three medieval-like gilt clasp design across spine and covers. Also a Whitman design feature is the block of title and author which is off-set to the center right of the cover. Top edge gilt. Green coated endpapers. Binding was also issued in vellum.
Exhibition
Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection
