Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Lexicon
Search Terms
1890s
Dimensions
Height
8 in
Width
5-1/4 in
Book Details
Author
Alfred Tennyson
Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin & Company
Place Published
City
Boston
State/Province
Massachusetts
Country
United States
Continent
North America
Date Published
circa 1890
Binding
Binding Type
Publisher's Binding
Binding Designer
Sarah Wyman Whitman
Binding Notes
Design attributed to Sarah Wyman Whitman. Bound in beveled brown cloth with black and gilt stamping in an asymmetrical vertical panel design of interweaving vines in black and leaf and bud vine in gilt. Title in gilt and series title: "Household Edition of the Poets" in black to bottom of cover. Same motif repeated to spine. Brown stone endpapers. All edges gilt.
