Bound for Beauty #34
490 p., [1] leaf of plates
Tissue-covered frontis portrait photo of older Browning.
One of 24 Luxembourg Classics issued by Crowell.
Collection
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Lexicon
Search Terms
Executions and executioners, 1890s, Poetry, History
Unsigned binding, likely Henry Thayer/Decorative Designers. Gold and off-white repeating pattern of an open book stamped in off-white within interlocking gold rings on vertically ribbed dark olive green cloth. Pattern repeated on spine. Top edge gilt.
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Guido Franceschini
Person or Organization
Pompilia Franceschini
Related Places
Place
City
Rome
Country
Italy
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Notes
Compare to cloth color of same title in light olive green cloth (2015.7.147). This one has a much stronger contrast to the stamping.
Exhibition
Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection
