Bound for Beauty #83
xxxvii, 260, [4] p. : ill.
Note: publisher's advertisements for Cranford Series to rear.
Follows Felix Summerly's (Sir Henry Cole's) version for children, which was adapted from Caxton's. The introduction and notes attempt to give the adult reader a condensed account of the latest results of research in folk-lore and literary history.
Collection
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Lexicon
Search Terms
1890s
Dimensions
Height
7-1/4 in
Width
4-3/4 in
Book Details
Editor
Joseph Jacobs
Illustrator
W. Frank Calderon
Edition
First
Publisher
Macmillan & Company
Place Published
City
London
Country
England
Date Published
1895
Printer
R. & R. Clark
Place Printed
City
Edinburgh
Country
Scotland, United Kingdom
Binding
Binding Type
Publisher's Binding- Cranford Series
Binding Designer
A.A. Turbayne
Binding Notes
Bound in gilt-pictorial dark green cloth in a signed binding by A.A. Turbayne, showing a fox and birds in an elaborate art nouveau floral arrangement on the cover, with two distinctive designs on the spine. All edges gilt, coated endpapers.
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Felix Summerly
Exhibition
Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection
