tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29981992020929415502024-03-24T19:32:22.867-04:00American Trade Bindings and Beyond Calliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08643951145996676435noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998199202092941550.post-48155038897576934812023-07-24T07:43:00.002-04:002023-07-24T07:43:51.351-04:00We've moved!<p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/ua%3A129986" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1234" data-original-width="990" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdN1nIUeI9j3j_yoVOHgWMY1_fpHxyQ6KF3DwTiYfxJ-E5CNkJ7cLY_DDYlnMeMIZVM8EOCfNKWwoXgbeOOiTvAqwVHG9bldardWYPLLsVe4SeSj28zwaKJ6mWTtpzdQmTODxtQtQUvZzRukL3Ra91_InUqjm95kUjbfFR0BXpw0wd_63tvvQSQgztN24/w321-h400/moving.jpg" width="321" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/ua%3A129986" target="_blank">Moving Luggage, 1965. Photograph from UNCG's collection</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p>Heraclitus once said, "Change is the only constant in life" (or something very similar to that), and he wasn't wrong. We've had a lot of changes on campus here lately and more to come (fortunately or unfortunately depending on how you look at it). While we are in this season of change, we decided to shift our blog over to a new platform. All the older posts have moved over and new ones will only be posted at our new site (a post just went up this week about author, illustrator, and binding designer, Amy Brooks). We hope to see you over there! </p><p><br /></p><p>New blog: https://americantradebindingsandbeyond.wordpress.com/</p>Calliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08643951145996676435noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998199202092941550.post-48159550926010142462022-04-13T14:42:00.001-04:002022-04-13T14:42:43.847-04:00Making a Molehill out of a Misprint<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">There
are events, sometimes small, that reverberate down through the years, sometimes
with unexpectedly momentous consequences (“For want of a nail …”).</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is not one of those.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rather, it’s the story of a misprint composed
by an unknown hand in a book published by the L.C. Page Company in 1901. The
misprint reappeared 111 years later in a personal name authority record
created by the Library of Congress in 2012, and briefly puzzled me, then sent me
down a "Little Puritan" rabbit hole when I stumbled on it in the Library of
Congress authority file 120 years after the misprint was first made.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Uncharacteristically, this post is not
primarily about binding design; although to offset any disappointment it does
involve one of our favorite designers here at UNCG, Amy M. Sacker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead, it’s about a binding designer in the
role of illustrator--or is it? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Here’s a visual statement of the puzzle: </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfv5ZyoTrhMmSPHJ0MhY_SM1oDzWuiEHQ8hcjIwvOPQQRvCkjzvMU2-fe1PoRIN_TrWg0EGhlaHyjNj4lQcENTD_NEcT6KXsTloufBDN0MeoNYvlny7hUVq_zG_rBxFplQry9xQkv2ICTo2eK1P7xXOPkaias3VY0nvJ92dlnDTJWapfZd0NHCMK-Y_A/s687/sacker%20on%20title%20page%20cover-Internet%20archive.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="687" data-original-width="458" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfv5ZyoTrhMmSPHJ0MhY_SM1oDzWuiEHQ8hcjIwvOPQQRvCkjzvMU2-fe1PoRIN_TrWg0EGhlaHyjNj4lQcENTD_NEcT6KXsTloufBDN0MeoNYvlny7hUVq_zG_rBxFplQry9xQkv2ICTo2eK1P7xXOPkaias3VY0nvJ92dlnDTJWapfZd0NHCMK-Y_A/s320/sacker%20on%20title%20page%20cover-Internet%20archive.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmR9WG8QMwCN9RHMZaZxGhM81fXOFSEzVmeDc7SgZHuCZx4gfCP_RA2e_z2XITcsws_gBhxgizqyVFmpsZiijvyEAY1IRKedB7eWcFM1qVoDoOVWezVwFYC08JfoAXsSnj8hJ4uM4p68ygZdsAqXfBWbLH25Gq4BWQJW4drbg7Rneisx58KzCuvijoeg/s711/sacker%20on%20title%20page%20arrow.jpg" style="clear: right; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="711" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmR9WG8QMwCN9RHMZaZxGhM81fXOFSEzVmeDc7SgZHuCZx4gfCP_RA2e_z2XITcsws_gBhxgizqyVFmpsZiijvyEAY1IRKedB7eWcFM1qVoDoOVWezVwFYC08JfoAXsSnj8hJ4uM4p68ygZdsAqXfBWbLH25Gq4BWQJW4drbg7Rneisx58KzCuvijoeg/w400-h296/sacker%20on%20title%20page%20arrow.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /></span><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Before
we get into a discussion of the book, let’s step back for a moment and consider
cataloging and authority control. In our
work cataloging Special Collections materials we use the bibliographic utility
OCLC. Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio,
OCLC describes itself as “a global library cooperative that provides shared
technology services, original research, and community programs to libraries,
including our 18,000 members in 120+ countries.” As of December 2021, OCLC includes a
database, WorldCat, of over 520 million catalog records and over 3 billion holdings. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">As part of our work
we frequently contribute to the database of authority records maintained by
OCLC, either by creating new authority records or editing and improving
existing records.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> A</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">uthority
records exist to provide an “authorized” form of name by establishing it in a unique
form to unambiguously identify persons, corporations, families,
geographic names, subjects, titles, genres, etc.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The purpose, with personal names for example,
is twofold: to ensure that all works by a person are gathered under a unique
authorized form, and to differentiate each name so that works by other persons
are not attributed incorrectly.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">These
authorized headings are then used in cataloging and ideally make searching and
identifying more effective for everyone by gathering everything
by a given person under one form of name while excluding materials by other
persons.</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">For
myself, one of the benefits of the authority file is that it allows me to
quickly find an authorized form of name (if one exists) and cut and paste the
coded form of the heading into the catalog record on which I’m working. A short time ago I was cataloging a book with
a binding by Amy Sacker and wanted to add her name to the catalog record as the
binding designer. Browsing the authority file gave me this hit list: </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNb8e66ED89pbnLJl_dHpMqiceoCSocPiolsWLhtlXff8mHxYk1UDJbRAduAB7TbUSCPJQkDnLq-3yH_dM_WMOda8q7Q_2XOor259ARkY9XHKsuULTuXHgjVW3GQRxDS0yrbGuW6fKmx2DBBHjMlGjHW8COu1BG_4AdqzaWoHFVaFm7IxbeNtTv8z-ow/s763/Sacker%20OCLC%20search%20arrow.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="502" data-original-width="763" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNb8e66ED89pbnLJl_dHpMqiceoCSocPiolsWLhtlXff8mHxYk1UDJbRAduAB7TbUSCPJQkDnLq-3yH_dM_WMOda8q7Q_2XOor259ARkY9XHKsuULTuXHgjVW3GQRxDS0yrbGuW6fKmx2DBBHjMlGjHW8COu1BG_4AdqzaWoHFVaFm7IxbeNtTv8z-ow/w400-h264/Sacker%20OCLC%20search%20arrow.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">For whatever reason (though I like to think that it was deep concentration on the task at hand), what I had
not noticed before was that there was another entry, one for an “Amy F. Sacker”
with the same dates, in addition to “Amy M. Sacker” in the browse search results. As far
as I knew, as with the Highlander, “there can be only one” Amy Sacker and I was
intrigued by this second Sacker. [1] </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh1806ZIYeJvzp7Qg1nLUSec8iG4ctYZNcIr0Ou2-wQfLTfgsUfuAexxFi7Fr_SfWHDDxa0Q9vn4zWw_A6B6AtbQJ1XP5n7IVTLNtzKrT2q1X5rVRXWluxH7gO5vGzDEhX46W04eHRl3lm6xAllku57Wn_IEbHlVhCWGO6FhNfCzGyJCq7OncTaAhzOw/s1299/IMG_3069.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="1299" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh1806ZIYeJvzp7Qg1nLUSec8iG4ctYZNcIr0Ou2-wQfLTfgsUfuAexxFi7Fr_SfWHDDxa0Q9vn4zWw_A6B6AtbQJ1XP5n7IVTLNtzKrT2q1X5rVRXWluxH7gO5vGzDEhX46W04eHRl3lm6xAllku57Wn_IEbHlVhCWGO6FhNfCzGyJCq7OncTaAhzOw/w516-h244/IMG_3069.jpg" width="516" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">When I selected the record for Amy F. Sacker I encountered the following:</span><p></p></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieblOgwW6vEHKNb0uSUoW5NU7VPwZH-OMjghXCRQ4ko3eFHZPmGMyj1iv5CFKyXSpDeQUNLVV59vDTrqOhH-tN1abhsfyDeI7DlyKZj8uQ8oxDjOX6gQ_zGQ8ZLPEQIGLHQ6Iol7LB9VdltqtAr4fd-tCbf8OSWKdIWdLaP44YPsp4jbU07TnhEgrr_A/s1395/amy%20sacker%20authority%20arrow.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="566" data-original-width="1395" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieblOgwW6vEHKNb0uSUoW5NU7VPwZH-OMjghXCRQ4ko3eFHZPmGMyj1iv5CFKyXSpDeQUNLVV59vDTrqOhH-tN1abhsfyDeI7DlyKZj8uQ8oxDjOX6gQ_zGQ8ZLPEQIGLHQ6Iol7LB9VdltqtAr4fd-tCbf8OSWKdIWdLaP44YPsp4jbU07TnhEgrr_A/w640-h261/amy%20sacker%20authority%20arrow.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Library of Congress Authority File record for Amy M. Sacker</span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">This is the public display of the authority
record from the Library of Congress authority file. Note that “Sacker, Amy F.” etc. is under the
Variant(s) label on the Amy M. Sacker record, indicating that it is an unauthorized/unused
variant for Amy M. Sacker. If</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> it was an authorized variant of the name that could be used on catalog records, it would appear under a “See also”
label.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The source of name note (“Found
in”) indicates where the variant name appeared, in this case on the title page
of A Little Puritan Pioneer by Edith A. Robinson, published in 1901.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">So, apparently a misprint, though an odd one
as “F” and “M” are not in close enough proximity to routinely make such an
error, whether in a printer’s type cases or on a monotype keyboard (though the M does appear directly above the F on a linotype keyboard).</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Whatever was happening, this needed some
follow-up.</span></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">From OCLC, I found 2 records for A Little Puritan Pioneer, the first for
an electronic book with Amy F. Sacker given as illustrator. The second was for the 1901 print copy, which
we held. Then came another surprise; the
print version gave the illustrator on the title page as “A.F. Schmidt”! </span><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLYcRjyV3PSrbdrjztd6bAbr3wtWvDSADZRXpxJRI9lRqY2P1sri1ijmNDMDWL8U3b3FDK7LRRq4ChNjWlfAA8iEi3DmB_Mj5hKqXrVSZNhu86YD9x4HwTRLObBFvj5qubFjbJwx_xDwcBg7SAX1jKrpVZIYgg8naCrHsMvQf4zDFVK-81bbeZvYq9EA/s381/our%20cover%20from%20atb%20site.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="381" data-original-width="300" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLYcRjyV3PSrbdrjztd6bAbr3wtWvDSADZRXpxJRI9lRqY2P1sri1ijmNDMDWL8U3b3FDK7LRRq4ChNjWlfAA8iEi3DmB_Mj5hKqXrVSZNhu86YD9x4HwTRLObBFvj5qubFjbJwx_xDwcBg7SAX1jKrpVZIYgg8naCrHsMvQf4zDFVK-81bbeZvYq9EA/w315-h400/our%20cover%20from%20atb%20site.JPG" width="315" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhguJ7DSWLjzvrg4ydOGioHX1cxZ12JUiNMKr-3Ea7q_qhYY3eJavlkCy_Q-aRhJRfXJqNiiT2KK5iSipYzSVx9KD5Gr4k819CAI3CveUlzrgWCJjXsasKDlH_NgmSlQykZ9twCJOr01kvjFEo2dMBbD5BxFEshF2XBhojezyhEOCUCjy7AnoBim0dknw/s583/schmidt%20on%20tp%20our%20copy.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="583" data-original-width="399" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhguJ7DSWLjzvrg4ydOGioHX1cxZ12JUiNMKr-3Ea7q_qhYY3eJavlkCy_Q-aRhJRfXJqNiiT2KK5iSipYzSVx9KD5Gr4k819CAI3CveUlzrgWCJjXsasKDlH_NgmSlQykZ9twCJOr01kvjFEo2dMBbD5BxFEshF2XBhojezyhEOCUCjy7AnoBim0dknw/w274-h400/schmidt%20on%20tp%20our%20copy.JPG" width="274" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span><p></p><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">There was no record for a print version of the book with Sacker as
illustrator in OCLC. It seemed certain
that the Sacker title page was in error, at least about the “F.” initial, but I
wanted to try and determine what had happened, so I turned to the illustrations, which seem clearly to be by another hand.
There are five full page illustrations and a further five in the text,
all of them signed “A F S” in script, which would fit with either Schmidt or a misprinted
Amy F. Sacker.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzrmUd0-HjcwErS8g6IeT1fZ99mJJ3fYCjHw_BcsLDsxSsU8yH01tHc-1Qz8WQUPYj1g9ZsNiDorJUNC7eamXVDz-XmmG-8TPWYoOyYHcrc0iggaPXW1Yaj-j8BT91cIynSKbKVZPxPmC1rCTly_asUp3EtFDrxwnr1pIjogVJondMYYVqFsdyHyBP-A/s682/illus%20page%2019.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="682" data-original-width="457" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzrmUd0-HjcwErS8g6IeT1fZ99mJJ3fYCjHw_BcsLDsxSsU8yH01tHc-1Qz8WQUPYj1g9ZsNiDorJUNC7eamXVDz-XmmG-8TPWYoOyYHcrc0iggaPXW1Yaj-j8BT91cIynSKbKVZPxPmC1rCTly_asUp3EtFDrxwnr1pIjogVJondMYYVqFsdyHyBP-A/w268-h400/illus%20page%2019.JPG" width="268" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illustration on page 19<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2YsvKdVa0prRwg4-ZaUx3gJTtzAi8z2X214bUJ5iw8l0aSX2BbQTl_Coi42o0KpeujlmfZIiG6BLS2mmXsmFGQbJAonFm7eRxz4_v6W4QjHjeSpzNpR8tiPu-kSS8O529JBWqZzxZgDwAH-qLImzru1jslMzdt3kD5YCh7aJG_7pGgZeouVfhUem-FA/s688/illus%20page%205.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="688" data-original-width="460" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2YsvKdVa0prRwg4-ZaUx3gJTtzAi8z2X214bUJ5iw8l0aSX2BbQTl_Coi42o0KpeujlmfZIiG6BLS2mmXsmFGQbJAonFm7eRxz4_v6W4QjHjeSpzNpR8tiPu-kSS8O529JBWqZzxZgDwAH-qLImzru1jslMzdt3kD5YCh7aJG_7pGgZeouVfhUem-FA/w268-h400/illus%20page%205.JPG" width="268" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illustration on page 5</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQmizVsLumgChbzUbeewRjk-P-FGACTNZ_HQhuV6f0DVmjGb2GxGf1HdVQDAtbOX7i9XyPowh1IXJLLJ5QkEVeVUl8HaY6y46Lz5Iy7Gr4tbN85jttCagKTYmABGBPAZ4AuKuYwFpKqJvM_k5l0S0Va6EwR6BrQhxMaP5VCUpNYFpEM8oCpgZTaZs-bQ/s687/illus%20page%2057.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="687" data-original-width="458" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQmizVsLumgChbzUbeewRjk-P-FGACTNZ_HQhuV6f0DVmjGb2GxGf1HdVQDAtbOX7i9XyPowh1IXJLLJ5QkEVeVUl8HaY6y46Lz5Iy7Gr4tbN85jttCagKTYmABGBPAZ4AuKuYwFpKqJvM_k5l0S0Va6EwR6BrQhxMaP5VCUpNYFpEM8oCpgZTaZs-bQ/w266-h400/illus%20page%2057.JPG" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illustration on page 57</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzrAK4JQteU1nK81lUowusAWvUcvi1nHydOksELEvIU2J_e6gRN2wYPelF-TMr3DdfrPP_Q3pUGAXEaws43BegwozSvderRN9AVHohZ08qwXvEy7V7p5sxzSkbwPx6A1y372wxNHhiQNllceyxWaGGNmX_ql5AlmdvEkHjAUXq8RoKqIKkFYlIFQhQxw" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="210" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzrAK4JQteU1nK81lUowusAWvUcvi1nHydOksELEvIU2J_e6gRN2wYPelF-TMr3DdfrPP_Q3pUGAXEaws43BegwozSvderRN9AVHohZ08qwXvEy7V7p5sxzSkbwPx6A1y372wxNHhiQNllceyxWaGGNmX_ql5AlmdvEkHjAUXq8RoKqIKkFYlIFQhQxw=w263-h400" width="263" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illustration on page 63<br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTmnEx_u0aw8ZYjHVD_0otMMMVCsWHAN7Mzy8e9Vz3dJAYIxN7sHvutFBxAAfqifERFJ30j0eCAY-qqeQDvIoDy5a3hIcpsbBD0y18gRbA1D5c9z1IiUti1txDzpqtEvIv4OtYsC5LFqVe7VC7O8UcDu63bpuoy4ljACQmXO5zowXcx8pyHtHXIu2Uzw/s550/sacker%20on%20title%20page%20-%20our%20copy%20frontispiece.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="363" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTmnEx_u0aw8ZYjHVD_0otMMMVCsWHAN7Mzy8e9Vz3dJAYIxN7sHvutFBxAAfqifERFJ30j0eCAY-qqeQDvIoDy5a3hIcpsbBD0y18gRbA1D5c9z1IiUti1txDzpqtEvIv4OtYsC5LFqVe7VC7O8UcDu63bpuoy4ljACQmXO5zowXcx8pyHtHXIu2Uzw/w264-h400/sacker%20on%20title%20page%20-%20our%20copy%20frontispiece.JPG" width="264" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Frontispiece</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5Jbk8XKAY9jW7e0jxMhmFEK5EZ0yuljT8GgpAmR5IfFIg0tjpTfDYuarn3YUvWxGnBaITgtkig_gAzKgHIWL3eAN-r6iCn56scGKOawvENf-g4IkmnjN27d6Gq1Byb274l8rnkxLwB9uvv-0osdMAhFy1wnKiL6iw9RMxT2wiJTHmvudUC_g8GZ7nSQ/s467/monogram%20with%20arrow%20from%20msoft%20word2.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="334" data-original-width="467" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5Jbk8XKAY9jW7e0jxMhmFEK5EZ0yuljT8GgpAmR5IfFIg0tjpTfDYuarn3YUvWxGnBaITgtkig_gAzKgHIWL3eAN-r6iCn56scGKOawvENf-g4IkmnjN27d6Gq1Byb274l8rnkxLwB9uvv-0osdMAhFy1wnKiL6iw9RMxT2wiJTHmvudUC_g8GZ7nSQ/w320-h229/monogram%20with%20arrow%20from%20msoft%20word2.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Monogram on frontispiece</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYABtQEe07YxKtrB4xAjEPPVwd56UzoIGfneJhP1HxrB_QVqKww3gYEheofGLgp4UD0f82abOyjtjH9AH4FFXtpirrpnt0itjZqyFuwzQtMdp1Iik8ts7Qlh4hyxuz9XQetXCgXc3pHt2igORpOe70PMYAlR6sv1mCnEhPfcLFGXYckKFHxq1SzklgCQ/s550/sacker%20on%20title%20page%20-%20our%20copy%20frontispiece.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></span><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">However, the style of the illustrations and the monogram clearly rule
them out as Amy M. Sacker’s work, as can be seen from authentic Sacker
illustrations:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuHLUjzho2v4CDdIa76VjOf15Zy-Mjw7EEK_9TVg4UwK32uxU160dOsyEMYLBBtBqQrNt1yPxIC7oXog04lS0mwdvaFgjV6UFJranV05C5988Cs0P2iaoMy06WY8vlWyydwXxGdbLs-9PRUk8wdmA0BMzrBlTE962t5Ku9wz6zITzz_K-Gcj3lI23_dg/s493/LittlePuritanR%203.jpg" style="clear: right; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuHLUjzho2v4CDdIa76VjOf15Zy-Mjw7EEK_9TVg4UwK32uxU160dOsyEMYLBBtBqQrNt1yPxIC7oXog04lS0mwdvaFgjV6UFJranV05C5988Cs0P2iaoMy06WY8vlWyydwXxGdbLs-9PRUk8wdmA0BMzrBlTE962t5Ku9wz6zITzz_K-Gcj3lI23_dg/s16000/LittlePuritanR%203.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sacker illustration--A Little Puritan Rebel<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4ChWFwYFIJeFmSvQFkpmiMahUGRBX0BkghurCBsp_Wx03GSy4oMl_DFKwHu8MAAfhBls6o0M49AdBHxcHS82QBeFYgp1qQbSCBvoGDL3u_Qg3ISii9qDg1XjiBRWxW5QbpINjsdqmyD1UYhh_YXd9pHQfAcbexFtwad2oxBHIYVKEx5rE4Ua299rDqQ" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="193" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4ChWFwYFIJeFmSvQFkpmiMahUGRBX0BkghurCBsp_Wx03GSy4oMl_DFKwHu8MAAfhBls6o0M49AdBHxcHS82QBeFYgp1qQbSCBvoGDL3u_Qg3ISii9qDg1XjiBRWxW5QbpINjsdqmyD1UYhh_YXd9pHQfAcbexFtwad2oxBHIYVKEx5rE4Ua299rDqQ=w241-h400" width="241" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sacker illustration--A Little Puritan's First Christmas</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTMcAyE8NrN4yClV-458OM-acS6vaEbaYV-z0iaPyMXAEt1iZBNZnmr_2dgXPzDiSgiP3AqelR_9trtdXhBSHIH-dqBzztlV3OzD3agpuRzP-5aES8F_a6SidJHtIg6jiNKYEoQpI159OLomjZokx_mkigzofAqY-cfiNNsP-fUBHsXWgSaAPtIyF8_Q/s490/Loyallittlemaid%20page%2072%20reduced.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="490" data-original-width="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTMcAyE8NrN4yClV-458OM-acS6vaEbaYV-z0iaPyMXAEt1iZBNZnmr_2dgXPzDiSgiP3AqelR_9trtdXhBSHIH-dqBzztlV3OzD3agpuRzP-5aES8F_a6SidJHtIg6jiNKYEoQpI159OLomjZokx_mkigzofAqY-cfiNNsP-fUBHsXWgSaAPtIyF8_Q/s16000/Loyallittlemaid%20page%2072%20reduced.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amy Sacker illustration--A Loyal Little Maid</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="293" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikforQJpKhKEhCEM1K8_uQJB4eN-N6ON9JY33A2AaqUUIpvoqFpK14DKBL56GQ7p-TGsLvkzr6RbWE0gngSmgxa5Kf8ulo7u5dKUjXj7IWEZCI77M6G2r4rGUEYNeCTZmZIhAvQuOhex05AUewHMqzH_5KZ3vvZZbP3fcxfL3mmSQ0dCtX40MijGWJmw/w260-h400/littledaughtertworeduced.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="260" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sacker illustration--A Little Daughter of Liberty</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><div><br /></div><div>We have already seen from the image of the
title page of A Little Puritan Pioneer, given above, that “Amy <i>F.</i> Sacker” was credited by the publisher--at least at one time--with the
illustrations, though this is in error. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">To
add another wrinkle to an already wrinkly situation, the contents and illustration
pages have headpieces that </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">were</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"> designed by Amy Sacker and have her monogram. </span></div><p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizFfNxKj0Nvy55pxK8stCb805gShzO6QoNj0xcRoEq8kU_R-dZ0O70X0LnCUHj317W2cl37Vt77_C4ptzflLWZunfhebDMX4kwU7gegUhbtUNCr5hQprlsYE--dXqQ_87M5c8w6lmjKpzZhKV-pLJY2Fk-qhEQFizul2LQdBuiIT8WlfB6KcLELw9HXQ" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="215" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizFfNxKj0Nvy55pxK8stCb805gShzO6QoNj0xcRoEq8kU_R-dZ0O70X0LnCUHj317W2cl37Vt77_C4ptzflLWZunfhebDMX4kwU7gegUhbtUNCr5hQprlsYE--dXqQ_87M5c8w6lmjKpzZhKV-pLJY2Fk-qhEQFizul2LQdBuiIT8WlfB6KcLELw9HXQ=w269-h400" width="269" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNigb0hQUd1INgVMLS7upnCWbB1ZOh8srAU-YIFQI26R4N8NItbjlTTgMscnKQreGUxMQS198UgwM474PGof8XsiZs33Dfh_f42DuwuCN8moNUDVdseqC-WRjjxt7euyd9O_qii_W0Z5duJIDLJJKHTOzFJp2qzei7GZOVeUbbTCPflbNaxGmXd6uM0w/s735/sacker%20on%20title%20page%20-%20contents%20page%20w%20sacker%20monogram2.JPG" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="735" data-original-width="465" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNigb0hQUd1INgVMLS7upnCWbB1ZOh8srAU-YIFQI26R4N8NItbjlTTgMscnKQreGUxMQS198UgwM474PGof8XsiZs33Dfh_f42DuwuCN8moNUDVdseqC-WRjjxt7euyd9O_qii_W0Z5duJIDLJJKHTOzFJp2qzei7GZOVeUbbTCPflbNaxGmXd6uM0w/w253-h400/sacker%20on%20title%20page%20-%20contents%20page%20w%20sacker%20monogram2.JPG" width="253" /></a><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx_p72wKvKbADARckChfpPDZe5VHNrIbvvtXD92bFUulfYqV-0aoSsrsHKag4kLa6Hz-XcVc4xk-xEIjQv9HC4SWxIRnMXItueAghLMUXoO6XBuW4sxE1n4cdpu9nofmWdPGqeLaHSJECfY20N5bfSoerpRP9bfEzaZBJwKh6T2PMmyE-SalZFBHlt8g/s257/sacker%20on%20title%20page%20-%20ill%20page%20w%20sacker%20monogram%20box2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="257" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx_p72wKvKbADARckChfpPDZe5VHNrIbvvtXD92bFUulfYqV-0aoSsrsHKag4kLa6Hz-XcVc4xk-xEIjQv9HC4SWxIRnMXItueAghLMUXoO6XBuW4sxE1n4cdpu9nofmWdPGqeLaHSJECfY20N5bfSoerpRP9bfEzaZBJwKh6T2PMmyE-SalZFBHlt8g/s1600/sacker%20on%20title%20page%20-%20ill%20page%20w%20sacker%20monogram%20box2.jpg" width="257" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">These headpieces were frequently
used in other books.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mark Schumacher, our
former colleague and Amy Sacker expert, lists 69 titles on his <a href="http://www.amysacker.net/documents/checklistillus.html" target="_blank">Amy Sacker Site</a> where one or both designs were used, including many in L.C.
Page’s Cosy Corner Series (more on this series below). [2]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">So in a sense, Sacker did make a
contribution to illustrating the book!</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">I went to Publishers’ Weekly searching for more information on this
title since I was curious whether Amy Sacker was given as the illustrator in
advertisements for the book. The first
mention I located was in the July 13, 1901 issue, where it appeared in a “Record
of Series” and was listed with nine other titles in the Cosy Corner Series
published by the Boston firm of L.C. Page & Co. The Sept. 28, 1901 issue
includes a full page advertisement on p. 676 for “[t]en new volumes in the Cosy Corner Series of Charming Juveniles … [T]his series shall contain only the very
highest and purest literature—stories that shall not only appeal to the
children themselves, but be appreciated by all those who feel with them in
their joys and sorrows---stories that shall be most particularly adapted for
reading aloud in the family circle. The numerous illustrations in each book are
by well-known artists, and each volume has a separate attractive cover design.” Unfortunately, there is no mention for any of
the volumes of whom the well-known artists might be. As for the cover designs, attractiveness lies
in the eye of the beholder, with designs ranging from A Bad Penny, quite
attractive and designed by Alfred Brennan, with his monogram, to A Little
Puritan Pioneer, for me the least attractive of the lot. [3] </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcGLlnAvy9PQ-k1BxBgNngG8m2U3Q4t6sOSXdS-blGUtVBrKTdlIYVlkFiX8MTq4SYuC9RzY7TNW4NVsmcrjlXHqZgP1OunlBXm2akYPTOVO4jPLbW0oM_WiSya6Wc_8ScCkc1e6xSVw9P25eFSUuSz6ZY6lIL1cwyqtaXvfXUygG4sdt404t1whrIRw/s942/bad%20penny%20Alfred%20Brennan.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="942" data-original-width="734" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcGLlnAvy9PQ-k1BxBgNngG8m2U3Q4t6sOSXdS-blGUtVBrKTdlIYVlkFiX8MTq4SYuC9RzY7TNW4NVsmcrjlXHqZgP1OunlBXm2akYPTOVO4jPLbW0oM_WiSya6Wc_8ScCkc1e6xSVw9P25eFSUuSz6ZY6lIL1cwyqtaXvfXUygG4sdt404t1whrIRw/w311-h400/bad%20penny%20Alfred%20Brennan.JPG" width="311" /></a></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD-FHW1ZJvzHLWtW8RZtCKFnacA2urdreVBni-Z2y3frRYdj3T0SG2PL3P5hwWAE8M4sia9GsxWkuQrYqRJ-dKB5mPvZDaCOq2B02FOshzO919lg7AshrlO1UfNEMpEITMQZl0dClojsNv_aqyclVDJJolddEp0EzRc56S2OD3fEMR3GOYkXM6bPzWZQ/s266/bad%20penny%20Alfred%20Brennan%20monogram.JPG" style="clear: right; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="224" data-original-width="266" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD-FHW1ZJvzHLWtW8RZtCKFnacA2urdreVBni-Z2y3frRYdj3T0SG2PL3P5hwWAE8M4sia9GsxWkuQrYqRJ-dKB5mPvZDaCOq2B02FOshzO919lg7AshrlO1UfNEMpEITMQZl0dClojsNv_aqyclVDJJolddEp0EzRc56S2OD3fEMR3GOYkXM6bPzWZQ/s1600/bad%20penny%20Alfred%20Brennan%20monogram.JPG" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"AB" monogram of Alfred Brennan</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">I then checked the Library of Congress Copyright Office’s Catalogue of
Title Entries of Books and Other Articles.
Here the title was briefly described and included a statement that it
was illustrated by Amy F. Sacker, with a copyright date of Sept. 3, 1901, which
was also the date when two copies were received by the Library of Congress. [4].</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvV1y2tK0u9qSqmGXt44xJCF2YfB1WSUbgBwoBdziLcuPgr4kXNMUI8-IZ_2p_kFCO7dsCF7S4ghxc7VcRWupkk4iqQdYdmOaNR_K9Xp-pgfisNEeBiV0-XEB5_MjsWiEtAAQeGTe6ffQ0Fuc6ySBXi2BKSWde_IRaNEFY9rtSkH1GJVrx5rc1xsWKxQ/s289/little%20puritan%20pioneer%20copyright%20entry%20cropped.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="167" data-original-width="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvV1y2tK0u9qSqmGXt44xJCF2YfB1WSUbgBwoBdziLcuPgr4kXNMUI8-IZ_2p_kFCO7dsCF7S4ghxc7VcRWupkk4iqQdYdmOaNR_K9Xp-pgfisNEeBiV0-XEB5_MjsWiEtAAQeGTe6ffQ0Fuc6ySBXi2BKSWde_IRaNEFY9rtSkH1GJVrx5rc1xsWKxQ/s16000/little%20puritan%20pioneer%20copyright%20entry%20cropped.JPG" /></a></div></span></div><div><br /></div><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">As
I noted above, there was not a record for a print version of A Little Puritan Pioneer with Amy
F. Sacker as illustrator in OCLC. This
is not particularly surprising, since cataloging rules and interpretations have
changed many times over the years, and in older cataloging illustrators, for
example, were often not transcribed as part of the catalog record. I did wonder at what time the illustrator error
had been noticed and corrected. Although the error made it through the entire
publishing process, from copy editing through proofing and printing, I
suspected that not many copies with the error had made their way into
circulation before it was corrected. Some
of the eight institutions holding copies on the “Schmidt” catalog record might
actually have Sacker on the title page, but I only knew of three copies that were
definitely extant, two of which are held by the Library of Congress. The copy from which the digitized version was
made is held by the Boston Public Library, as shown by their ownership stamps.</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOpVZwMp04Hch2hdWaYMAm9_89kvR2_dteKwyCI7Vtx9P0lsU-GfQvrtFo3NTV07ERDa2vGBPJsClZp4zSEFUKfVMC8h7OnHJrBlArzWHNoHdcnso7J_rnKYxvHqxJpUIoMbG51eij3Z8I5WRZPNZGpEQ4Wr-2Xyd72UnkoMv9nlngHhfZ1d598YUygA/s711/sacker%20on%20title%20page.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="711" height="473" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOpVZwMp04Hch2hdWaYMAm9_89kvR2_dteKwyCI7Vtx9P0lsU-GfQvrtFo3NTV07ERDa2vGBPJsClZp4zSEFUKfVMC8h7OnHJrBlArzWHNoHdcnso7J_rnKYxvHqxJpUIoMbG51eij3Z8I5WRZPNZGpEQ4Wr-2Xyd72UnkoMv9nlngHhfZ1d598YUygA/w640-h473/sacker%20on%20title%20page.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It also
made sense that the Boston Public Library held a copy of the earlier issue or state since
L.C. Page was a Boston publisher and they probably acquired their copy shortly
after publication. In fact, one copy (their catalog lists two) was a gift from
the publisher, noted on their bookplate on the front pastedown, with an
additional handwritten date, Oct. 3, 1901, on the verso of the title page.</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiS7ORvIMvOUvwFy3irmdhADwQixJrg7fkNYhFF43vs17i5RIBKesoNmvdL8MjWNHusur4nQiPjnSR_mCNSRj5d3fVo2YW11kH2q5b8dlUqNMs5HoTBLtCNeHZ79_wZxS0r79s8BDyfg00PSxdZLNyTZ9pqAJgJgyRXxlO-BWazOFyls6y4m-NM_nUVgA" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="215" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiS7ORvIMvOUvwFy3irmdhADwQixJrg7fkNYhFF43vs17i5RIBKesoNmvdL8MjWNHusur4nQiPjnSR_mCNSRj5d3fVo2YW11kH2q5b8dlUqNMs5HoTBLtCNeHZ79_wZxS0r79s8BDyfg00PSxdZLNyTZ9pqAJgJgyRXxlO-BWazOFyls6y4m-NM_nUVgA=w268-h400" width="268" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKFyMGfWaCsIro8qrXUIMAlOgj84tKS1J6VrNnmOIToq_M4LrhFwcnoymGPVKXKfFCdXwBAB8mtIy_aWlK6By7DVcl1IWD1s_rA5I_F_RJnnc5p2kD2Bt7zxqs07KS-vDv3-Qhm5KpEJE35imL0AZYzLVqvF6BZwkycXRi9_C7pGUcKBWufJQ12ycqDA/s689/sacker%20on%20title%20page%20boston%20public%20scanned%20front%20pastedown.JPG" style="clear: left; display: inline; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="689" data-original-width="464" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKFyMGfWaCsIro8qrXUIMAlOgj84tKS1J6VrNnmOIToq_M4LrhFwcnoymGPVKXKfFCdXwBAB8mtIy_aWlK6By7DVcl1IWD1s_rA5I_F_RJnnc5p2kD2Bt7zxqs07KS-vDv3-Qhm5KpEJE35imL0AZYzLVqvF6BZwkycXRi9_C7pGUcKBWufJQ12ycqDA/w270-h400/sacker%20on%20title%20page%20boston%20public%20scanned%20front%20pastedown.JPG" width="270" /></a></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It is possible to speculate from this admittedly slim evidence that only
a few copies survive with the Sacker misprint.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Through
a strange coincidence, while I was looking into this title a second copy of the
book was donated to the UNCG Library by Mark Schumacher with an “Amy F. Sacker” title
page.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Did I need to revise my original
supposition about the prevalence of the Amy F. Sacker issue?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Perhaps the misprint existed for a longer
time, and more copies of the book were sold with the misprint after all.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
Publishers’ Weekly advertisement of September 28, 1901 describes the ten Cosy
Corner Series volumes as large 16mos (sextodecimos).</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Our well-loved copies of both the Sacker and Schmidt issues make an
examination of the books’ structures quite easy.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Each consists of six gatherings of eight leaves
(16mo in 8s), with the Sacker issue made up of [10], 74, [12] pages, and the
Schmidt issue [10], 74, 10, [2] pages.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Sacker issue has an advertisement on the half title page verso (p.
[2]) for “Works of Edith Robinson” listing five titles including A Little Puritan Pioneer, and [12] pages of advertisements at the end.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Schmidt issue half title page is blank
with 10, [2] pages of advertisements at the end.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">In both issues the advertisements are not
inserted but are printed as part of the final gathering of 16 pages.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The advertisements at the end of the volumes
vary considerably.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Sacker issue
contains: full page advertisements for “new juveniles” (p. [1-7]), including three of the ten Cosy Corner titles listed in Publishers' Weekly, the first four volumes in the Little Cousin Series, and seven others; “Cosy Corner Series of Charming Juveniles” (p.
[8-11]) with 39 titles listed, not including the three volumes in the full page ad;
and four titles in the “Gift Book Series for Boys and Girls” (p. [12]). </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinfp5MuHE2gSkp6je9bBxpNarOimWu_NwexYdGXnqOp8wL1eGmFjdmsjoN85cjcO7ZjeiLXV89ob3W5qD5DTOmzvKNUJMVhr8Cm88wM5rv47BNiVUNQHMuV2F5lZ6C4JoOohKRpgv9fNb4186kABPlTZnuERGhIQsZCFxiid0EnEwLvL1rhlAb0eQDAg/s644/sacker%20on%20title%20page%20ads%20at%20end.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="644" data-original-width="438" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinfp5MuHE2gSkp6je9bBxpNarOimWu_NwexYdGXnqOp8wL1eGmFjdmsjoN85cjcO7ZjeiLXV89ob3W5qD5DTOmzvKNUJMVhr8Cm88wM5rv47BNiVUNQHMuV2F5lZ6C4JoOohKRpgv9fNb4186kABPlTZnuERGhIQsZCFxiid0EnEwLvL1rhlAb0eQDAg/w272-h400/sacker%20on%20title%20page%20ads%20at%20end.JPG" width="272" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
Schmidt issue contains ten pages of advertisements for the Cosy Corner Series, listing 56 titles including all of the Cosy Corner cohort listed in the Publishers' Weekly advertisement and eight additional titles.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The layout of
the series ads is completely different; they are</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;"> in a different and larger font</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">, with most of the ads arranged under
author headings, and with much lengthier
descriptions.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwLqFAghQEUc0kPapoNB2aZq_DR6fEf3Vffr9rQgnpBFRwECYrXepBttvkn7VA8cB2ngc08CrqiimzwjoJQCTGXSB0HYXWLi47uoxT9YQyZILvSjyV2HHCyY8wPwO_2V6L7G-MM9dZbuCbX2eUKNR44B2uky_7fXzwmLxqa4gRRO0B5DkFpoA3Vw-aOQ" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="222" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwLqFAghQEUc0kPapoNB2aZq_DR6fEf3Vffr9rQgnpBFRwECYrXepBttvkn7VA8cB2ngc08CrqiimzwjoJQCTGXSB0HYXWLi47uoxT9YQyZILvSjyV2HHCyY8wPwO_2V6L7G-MM9dZbuCbX2eUKNR44B2uky_7fXzwmLxqa4gRRO0B5DkFpoA3Vw-aOQ=w278-h400" width="278" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cosy Corner ads--Schmidt version<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif7TlSs0n1VcLKJK1grPB676cXCVt48PswGjE8x_VbD2E-i0ut2jVy1S7OY5ujQJrF0mv8VkbTlpQPv041iI4892nA1-9KqMNp8Na8J144riDZ3EZFucE3Uv6JAlZ3S-ilEBE0y2grsdJ15GpbP2rlNjusqZOOU_acP1ubH3uBom-i4uCMiOUc9Q9Fwg/w285-h400/cosy%20corner%20ads%20sacker.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="285" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cosy Corner ads--Sacker version</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pages [11-12]
advertise the Little Cousin Series, the first four volumes now listed as “first
series” with an additional option for purchasing them as a boxed set.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Page [12] announces six additional volumes as
a second series.</span></div><div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">All this helps to establish the date when the Schmidt
version was issued, in this case 1902.
All of the new Cosy Corner titles that I can find in OCLC are copyright
1902, although some apparently have title page dates of 1903. Some of them represent digitized versions
that confirm the 1902 date, and three titles are digitized from the Library of
Congress and are stamped as received in May, June, or July 1902. Similarly, while the first four volumes of
the Little Cousin Series--the only titles in the Sacker issue--are all
copyright 1901, with one stamped as received by the Library of Congress July 26,
1901, the next six volumes, the “second series,” are all copyright 1902, with
digital versions of four of them stamped as received by the Library of Congress on
June 30, 1902.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">To
answer the question posed above, unless some intermediate copy with different
ads is found, it appears that the Sacker issue persisted until it was partially
reset with the title page corrected to “A.F. Schmidt,” the list of Edith
Robinson titles omitted on the half title verso, and a new set of
advertisements replacing the ads on the final 12 pages of the last gathering of 16 pages,
dating to sometime in mid-1902. Presumably,
if there were any errors in the text of the work these would also have been
corrected in the Schmidt issue, though I haven’t gone so far as to check
this! With some confidence, we can
therefore state that the A.F. Sacker issue was published in 1901 and the A.F.
Schmidt issue was published in 1902. We
can also speculate that numerous copies of the misprinted issue might have
circulated in 1901 and early 1902, and only when further copies surface can
this be proved or disproved. The fact
that only eight libraries have added holdings to the OCLC record for this title
makes the possibility of numerous other copies appearing seem unlikely. Of course,
there may be copies of the Sacker issue extant but with a cancel title page
with Schmidt as illustrator, but that situation remains speculation until such
a copy is discovered.</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Much
has been said here about the A.F. Sacker vs. A.F. Schmidt title pages, but that begs
the question: who was A.F. Schmidt? To
answer this, I first searched OCLC with no results, then turned to an old
standby, Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975. Though no A.F. Schmidt was
listed, I did find a cross reference from Albert Felix Schmidt to Albert F(elix)
Schmitt. Schmitt was a painter, born in
Boston in 1873, who studied at the Massachusetts Normal Art School, the Cowles
Art School in Boston, and the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, where he
was considered a top student and was “regarded as one of the finer proponents
of the Boston School style of painting” [5]. He was one of the creators of what became the
early Boston Modernist Style. He was
offered the post of the court painter for the Vatican, which he accepted. He spent the rest of his life in Biarritz,
France, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">where he died in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">1953 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">[6]. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">Although interesting, this doesn’t definitively answer if A.F. Schmidt is the same person as Albert Felix Schmitt. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7KOj0Abw9YrlNtKxTlOPX2FxBLe1mK6-sh9hQNLoPaFxvcT2aMhKr95a2370eL-oXznKIpGDFShl8thDMkF_nUpkravMnico0u06xL6KNg--7lAaD95cWggE9fsaobXSffN7e4SWubCT_qz73GGzKK__WzZTllBEcMlZwV7IH0Fq_9XKDnDE7cEQiNw/s674/schmitt%20exhibition%20frontis.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="674" data-original-width="534" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7KOj0Abw9YrlNtKxTlOPX2FxBLe1mK6-sh9hQNLoPaFxvcT2aMhKr95a2370eL-oXznKIpGDFShl8thDMkF_nUpkravMnico0u06xL6KNg--7lAaD95cWggE9fsaobXSffN7e4SWubCT_qz73GGzKK__WzZTllBEcMlZwV7IH0Fq_9XKDnDE7cEQiNw/w318-h400/schmitt%20exhibition%20frontis.JPG" width="318" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Schmitt was a painter
who worked in oils and watercolors, whereas the illustrations in The Little
Puritan Pioneer are drawings. We
do have some examples of Schmitt’s work in two </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">other
titles we hold: Louisa May Alcott’s May Flowers (Boston: Little Brown, 1899)
and Clara Louise Burnham’s Jewel’s Story Book (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1904),
but these seem to be reproductions of paintings.</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgokQrX8GktI6-ZywDimx8ZChvr1hoUASVWwHTdtiogI-SLVunmOOtKXPpUi6K92lDhJROZjqGE0nsKZNewidIguLrPmQN9RFjNS5mUiWD4vwvXFJaT7pxtm64OjisQ-3ybl4tnOZM3YbOE294If-W-i9wIJMIgJYggTZ78mIFqdpSiMg1m9zxAMw6TjQ" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="205" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgokQrX8GktI6-ZywDimx8ZChvr1hoUASVWwHTdtiogI-SLVunmOOtKXPpUi6K92lDhJROZjqGE0nsKZNewidIguLrPmQN9RFjNS5mUiWD4vwvXFJaT7pxtm64OjisQ-3ybl4tnOZM3YbOE294If-W-i9wIJMIgJYggTZ78mIFqdpSiMg1m9zxAMw6TjQ=w257-h400" width="257" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jewel's Story Book: "I hear a sheep"</td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMBXfookeokw0Zj0JRKROv8tO5sK3NAlqm4SfPQxvhMFNJ1Qni1vJIsH1fosXay6xy6KnJVGwb93BryFKi6SC8VpqxSzDQ2KZlT4tKlHiRRWHc4q8rIP0NXkAutZDQZRv_KYUgcJHo-86aNzCKrJTV1wYPoepXHZRd4V520oJ1gX4YwtPSvAvrPD0_ug/s576/jewels%20story%20book%20frontis.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="403" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMBXfookeokw0Zj0JRKROv8tO5sK3NAlqm4SfPQxvhMFNJ1Qni1vJIsH1fosXay6xy6KnJVGwb93BryFKi6SC8VpqxSzDQ2KZlT4tKlHiRRWHc4q8rIP0NXkAutZDQZRv_KYUgcJHo-86aNzCKrJTV1wYPoepXHZRd4V520oJ1gX4YwtPSvAvrPD0_ug/w280-h400/jewels%20story%20book%20frontis.JPG" width="280" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A.F. Schmitt--frontispiece, Jewel's Story Book</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><br /><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVzIvsmqtJ6yZ-wFgdroZ2z5VENFosnXxaSgHWXpR1rr_h3LlDIO-6a99XdorId3uo3AqYK4PitUsxS2FJJUi3JAdL42Sm1YhLxQUz-aVimmamYnRapE4GJWkm_lzrckhRU_dbBAaGz-nyN0KIY3ExhT-LMY783FIEOLyZwChe0ZVfNiqY8mjJCKE25w/s772/May%20flowers%20schmitt%20ill.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="772" data-original-width="524" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVzIvsmqtJ6yZ-wFgdroZ2z5VENFosnXxaSgHWXpR1rr_h3LlDIO-6a99XdorId3uo3AqYK4PitUsxS2FJJUi3JAdL42Sm1YhLxQUz-aVimmamYnRapE4GJWkm_lzrckhRU_dbBAaGz-nyN0KIY3ExhT-LMY783FIEOLyZwChe0ZVfNiqY8mjJCKE25w/s320/May%20flowers%20schmitt%20ill.JPG" width="217" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A.F. Schmitt--May Flowers</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">In addition, only signatures rather than monograms are used.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoLCGQ_1n7hi8KHg0PcIwiAt5OuF7-42PoDwD3kQsQozl76hFCxuBgNuUzL2O0g_7voXFp5fJeWP0RDfMz1FQYLCncmTl4t7_KsrUIVInhJowEX9nXbq2CH127kLcNavyUAR6CCE87afe_sYjVkTRtDyNSgUJ4v6juhPeF9ecBpKkElPcWyOpo6l8IkA/s713/May%20flowers%20schmitt%20ill%20signature.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="197" data-original-width="713" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoLCGQ_1n7hi8KHg0PcIwiAt5OuF7-42PoDwD3kQsQozl76hFCxuBgNuUzL2O0g_7voXFp5fJeWP0RDfMz1FQYLCncmTl4t7_KsrUIVInhJowEX9nXbq2CH127kLcNavyUAR6CCE87afe_sYjVkTRtDyNSgUJ4v6juhPeF9ecBpKkElPcWyOpo6l8IkA/s320/May%20flowers%20schmitt%20ill%20signature.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May Flowers--signature</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixMd99N_2QbqNQ4SccMdd3eWnxsDRA25ItmRXEnXD_7c5o9U6w8ZL-IXCTM58GunahC2iBgmSKhz_43AHgbmnP4EYUCpO99oxhfqPjOn1ZbgjKn5hz9GK2DEm2lBG3a0qWAeWf-bfMU4DFCPIITt0LmbbtA0XbLwwFSebYp5EU8bcGWuy4OEhr2zYPPg/s346/jewels%20story%20book%20signature.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="167" data-original-width="346" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixMd99N_2QbqNQ4SccMdd3eWnxsDRA25ItmRXEnXD_7c5o9U6w8ZL-IXCTM58GunahC2iBgmSKhz_43AHgbmnP4EYUCpO99oxhfqPjOn1ZbgjKn5hz9GK2DEm2lBG3a0qWAeWf-bfMU4DFCPIITt0LmbbtA0XbLwwFSebYp5EU8bcGWuy4OEhr2zYPPg/w320-h154/jewels%20story%20book%20signature.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jewel's Story Book--signature</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">An exhibition of his work at the Boston Art Club in 1921 lists
and illustrates only oil paintings and watercolors, which are also signed Albert F. Schmitt rather than monogrammed. [7] </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp-DvByivNG2JDePrnQEbCvGEbLAIR2E7h0XB8a8wVZuSTQczF4KmXuUwQErRDyKU3wY4puYGWZ4kn7ULUtblOsHpK6PJSm1bcX6_RmE8GqCrjS5rZyUTtiRtcEXM9ZciQ3Vyzz3qjk4MN5IP24x-1WlodeJX3TsarlSVc5e82BeTYEyrtT4LUEI2HkQ/s531/schmitt%20exhibition%20illus%2022.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="531" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp-DvByivNG2JDePrnQEbCvGEbLAIR2E7h0XB8a8wVZuSTQczF4KmXuUwQErRDyKU3wY4puYGWZ4kn7ULUtblOsHpK6PJSm1bcX6_RmE8GqCrjS5rZyUTtiRtcEXM9ZciQ3Vyzz3qjk4MN5IP24x-1WlodeJX3TsarlSVc5e82BeTYEyrtT4LUEI2HkQ/s320/schmitt%20exhibition%20illus%2022.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The White Vase</td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX3VgWxpwrrEWGBVgoof8oTG2NGchqkGVy-epv1dNNF08IlfLfJC7ThCqL5o03VpjSJOgzpWvBZRJaJzBfeuJNFNbwFdlK6_IqU3J9Vx7xUMX6VDKdWfbL1miLykTH4tJ5uZLlHV9-JwVIq4wQeX-Smj74WuARNHgwBRSu-tJZvwqpFYD5wFVcwaZcRA/s580/schmitt%20exhibition%20illus%208.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="547" data-original-width="580" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX3VgWxpwrrEWGBVgoof8oTG2NGchqkGVy-epv1dNNF08IlfLfJC7ThCqL5o03VpjSJOgzpWvBZRJaJzBfeuJNFNbwFdlK6_IqU3J9Vx7xUMX6VDKdWfbL1miLykTH4tJ5uZLlHV9-JwVIq4wQeX-Smj74WuARNHgwBRSu-tJZvwqpFYD5wFVcwaZcRA/s320/schmitt%20exhibition%20illus%208.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the Piazza</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYfOnlqKxG-ZrLhOpe9hqWybJLxjh9ED2jx14B7XOYQVdCcMVIjfAOxHC8owTocx84bB7HTYlNUIS5oFoAajOL8l2G-aNXqP7lGQk3PYmeL79JP5-ObPmUHrEcW_px1-bjcEXC_kVAXcoyYPSb26fHl6Ru3rqtpS01Tq3sn4jj-d2CTfGy9kZQptOnag/s403/schmitt%20exhibition%20illus%2022%20signature2.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="118" data-original-width="403" height="94" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYfOnlqKxG-ZrLhOpe9hqWybJLxjh9ED2jx14B7XOYQVdCcMVIjfAOxHC8owTocx84bB7HTYlNUIS5oFoAajOL8l2G-aNXqP7lGQk3PYmeL79JP5-ObPmUHrEcW_px1-bjcEXC_kVAXcoyYPSb26fHl6Ru3rqtpS01Tq3sn4jj-d2CTfGy9kZQptOnag/s320/schmitt%20exhibition%20illus%2022%20signature2.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The White Vase--signature<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9GkvGhK6W_LUvhqhJC7HT_b1z5LQmRv-ia5itnHCFcN8QSFEW8l_vY_0W33vLvk0OoscTuvRJ1Hj9gXbq_Uza04Z7ldNXZD8sz9sNymbnQafht_z0B37cP28D-DEwW7fQSDt94Lgh3zQpbFJ5z8dt87BlGxjccaMt2ptii1Sol8LToPO1My5B9mopEw/s562/schmitt%20exhibition%20illus%208%20signature2.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="132" data-original-width="562" height="75" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9GkvGhK6W_LUvhqhJC7HT_b1z5LQmRv-ia5itnHCFcN8QSFEW8l_vY_0W33vLvk0OoscTuvRJ1Hj9gXbq_Uza04Z7ldNXZD8sz9sNymbnQafht_z0B37cP28D-DEwW7fQSDt94Lgh3zQpbFJ5z8dt87BlGxjccaMt2ptii1Sol8LToPO1My5B9mopEw/w320-h75/schmitt%20exhibition%20illus%208%20signature2.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the Piazza--signature</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>None of this
precludes all the illustrations being from the same hand, but without further
evidence I must consider the identification probable but tentative.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">Perhaps the publisher requested drawings, or Schmitt was
trying his hand at illustrations in a different medium but wasn’t sure how favorably
they would be received.</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">The choice of
the alternate spelling “Schmidt” and the use of a monogram may have been an
effort to lightly disguise the illustrator’s identity. Or there might actually have been another artist named A.F. Schmidt. [8]</span></span></div><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As a sidenote, I note with pleasure that in
one of the books, Alcott’s May Flowers, the Schmitt and Sacker combination comes
full circle--not as a Schmidt/Sacker amalgam, but rather as contributors of the
illustrations and the binding design, respectively! </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh50waDC6afZHpMIlnOLbimdAQqHHtE-3N3NnysiIIZf8fLxS32XY7c5LP0ZDdmpCO9YK1ZsuUUsvmWhq1OerMz-D-mvn2ZNICZVUWZVmNRDgBRSMxIB3eoZKHydVf42M2HJgTrFzy176UsIm_3OpO5WDPVkU4NQ92OTO48-CIrVxvON4Syq_CtHUXWEg/s927/May%20flowers%20sacker%20binding%201899.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="927" data-original-width="677" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh50waDC6afZHpMIlnOLbimdAQqHHtE-3N3NnysiIIZf8fLxS32XY7c5LP0ZDdmpCO9YK1ZsuUUsvmWhq1OerMz-D-mvn2ZNICZVUWZVmNRDgBRSMxIB3eoZKHydVf42M2HJgTrFzy176UsIm_3OpO5WDPVkU4NQ92OTO48-CIrVxvON4Syq_CtHUXWEg/w293-h400/May%20flowers%20sacker%20binding%201899.JPG" width="293" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sacker cover. Attribution by Mark Schumacher</td></tr></tbody></table></span></div></div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">I
was able to find almost no information about Edith Robinson, other than she was
born in Boston, Mass. on February 17, 1858, the daughter of George and Sarah
Louise Robinson, and was educated at the Girls’ High School in Boston. [9] She was the author of 11 books, 10 of them for
children. In addition to the Little
Puritan books she also wrote Forced Acquaintances: a Book for Girls (Boston:
Ticknor and Company, 1887) [10]; Penhallow Tales (Boston: Copeland and Day, 1896),
the lone non-juvenile title; and, The Captain of the School, illustrated by
Alice Barber Stephens (Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1901).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">A
final question that remains is why did “A.F. Sacker” get onto the title page of
The Little Puritan Pioneer in the first place?
While this can probably never be answered definitively, I do think that there’s
a clue in the publication history of Edith Robinson’s Little Puritan books. Edith Robinson wrote eight Little Puritan
books between 1896 and 1905, with a compilation of four of these titles
reissued in 1931. All of them were
published by L.C. Page and Company in their Cosy Corner Series. The University of North Carolina Greensboro
Special Collections has an extensive Girls Books in Series Collection and holds
all of these titles, though not all are first editions. These titles in
chronological order are: 1) A Loyal Little Maid (1897, c1896), with binding
design and illustrations by Amy Sacker [11]; 2) A Little Puritan Rebel (1898),
with an unsigned binding design attributed to Sacker in a contemporary
advertisement and illustrations by Sacker; 3) A Little Daughter of Liberty
(1899), with binding design by Alfred Brennan and illustrations by Sacker; 4) A Little Puritan’s First Christmas (1900), with unsigned but attributed binding
design and illustrations by Sacker; 5) A Little Puritan Pioneer (1901), with
illustrations by A.F. Schmidt; 6) A Puritan Knight Errant (1903), with a
binding design by “MH” (unidentified) and illustrations by Lewis Jesse
Bridgman; 7) A Little Puritan Bound Girl (1904) and 8) A Little Puritan Cavalier (1905), both with illustrations by Etheldred Breeze Barry. </span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1HAihe8r-l6wU0VGfKmQowG6b_Sr3p7ZSzbwrdNFVx3ql8aqmzmxO6vU3XbXyJ7xdricn0tijCYowqf-2c-1hQTqGFjBzOW5TvD3oPpIXHjmTT7TcBxrGm7bm0lDk66QaOsJC5KW32H8RUgg6DPUT-zPL6V-6_YoJd3zchRj7puXesx7U-XUpavNSSQ/s3084/Little%20puritan%20rebel%20cover.jpg" style="clear: right; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2171" data-original-width="3084" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1HAihe8r-l6wU0VGfKmQowG6b_Sr3p7ZSzbwrdNFVx3ql8aqmzmxO6vU3XbXyJ7xdricn0tijCYowqf-2c-1hQTqGFjBzOW5TvD3oPpIXHjmTT7TcBxrGm7bm0lDk66QaOsJC5KW32H8RUgg6DPUT-zPL6V-6_YoJd3zchRj7puXesx7U-XUpavNSSQ/w320-h225/Little%20puritan%20rebel%20cover.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amy Sacker cover 1898</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirnc-b3hzCvgXIot8A8orhtEAt0K-pNX8lc6V7DS0h5Y6j2bKkU_Lso9Pu_pS-a1ZmDbuqqOEidHJq6nKUSdQuKPBXZprXj3ZztNemdRXX_pXtJE05Peir8VZ_fDGet7tn6LIoZQ4tiWNPuxqoXT4AlSCj9z1WwEY6QdLTtE9yhWN95hkhkgEBGebtCA/s475/Loyallittlemaidreduced%201896.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="328" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirnc-b3hzCvgXIot8A8orhtEAt0K-pNX8lc6V7DS0h5Y6j2bKkU_Lso9Pu_pS-a1ZmDbuqqOEidHJq6nKUSdQuKPBXZprXj3ZztNemdRXX_pXtJE05Peir8VZ_fDGet7tn6LIoZQ4tiWNPuxqoXT4AlSCj9z1WwEY6QdLTtE9yhWN95hkhkgEBGebtCA/w221-h320/Loyallittlemaidreduced%201896.jpg" width="221" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amy Sacker cover 1897</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfHIiH5o9ZsV-2j3EF3Sb2YEPznZkCxoZEvn3-OUPZHlfB2M-9diGIfYcqb_LZBBfTpFTBwK9kXysmhYAgDTAC72bysLrRq5upnXCWcHbO793P-nSP8UH-fcl9Xqze-2zdCKNKnJ9XgJWXEOUUvuhmWhT9vMxRO7LQWv0FI6eBlKFa2wwMwpC-v1gDbA/s942/Little%20daughter%20of%20liberty.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="942" data-original-width="719" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfHIiH5o9ZsV-2j3EF3Sb2YEPznZkCxoZEvn3-OUPZHlfB2M-9diGIfYcqb_LZBBfTpFTBwK9kXysmhYAgDTAC72bysLrRq5upnXCWcHbO793P-nSP8UH-fcl9Xqze-2zdCKNKnJ9XgJWXEOUUvuhmWhT9vMxRO7LQWv0FI6eBlKFa2wwMwpC-v1gDbA/s320/Little%20daughter%20of%20liberty.JPG" width="244" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alfred Brennan cover 1899</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgeeI6aEv1pmqWl69lJtax9pnZ3n74nU2ymi7X-72ZsPiwpyMROwfNYvnuAZKn_eRwihtJqMAmC_6OxVIGa1ygJQF8tRKkbxi_L0nBgh6fzV2D5EyRWZCjbt-yjhU_Cy57h8SbKZIOPWOaSgbli8n-3koUc1vYXlKjKF-3exFFgFn6CPwkNRhwJfW7P1A" style="clear: right; 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margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="469" data-original-width="315" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPTASli9CV5wHBdvHK_yXiwIp8pDVvTcNw79wjmNPNmomGcSHVb9NTCP2_D1Ydi_-pMK4lRkEP1tflRUBFZoHMHtp9xs_1plaTeKv9s5Ne0sQhE8JtY9riEEU35NKq4ETMBZSZehnUQ5quOe30_8OJNvClktikPxzFckxdUWGfUzLWvRKYTcZ0f7b9SQ/w215-h320/LittlepuritansfirstXmasreduced%201900.jpg" width="215" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amy Sacker cover 1900</td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFuFrhbRt4VMzVaGIuXNkKuNIhDXqUulzp30Px2DrWvNYlMLTv1nonlLDHMUX2VKmulTm7R0K_NYsVHn_KXrZbfz99MYrQ48gSCxL3jxgyl_ZbZ8neEneOrVO9Bx3t5zed3GuWj3u6e5qerRJQzKMwFaIboOEYYsmPoTyo5R2ZkDcjGBSHgVZxZVLY4A" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="213" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFuFrhbRt4VMzVaGIuXNkKuNIhDXqUulzp30Px2DrWvNYlMLTv1nonlLDHMUX2VKmulTm7R0K_NYsVHn_KXrZbfz99MYrQ48gSCxL3jxgyl_ZbZ8neEneOrVO9Bx3t5zed3GuWj3u6e5qerRJQzKMwFaIboOEYYsmPoTyo5R2ZkDcjGBSHgVZxZVLY4A=w213-h320" width="213" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sacker as illustrator version 1901<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYHl8d5ZDiwqEGgpIiGba77epfQAnjK-HndJdBgGyoGWzC6kmw1Z8nqdSrlhVzwY79Oxdg_R4kDu5-urat_097Id3F0xFuvEPKt5VtYEqIiStLlNdPKIOP4M9yB6-w_gcG5by4TiOIbhrU-K64m--ou3W4wfSUU5T14Mzx3-I0sm0EIPGCwYw4OFRBKQ" style="clear: right; 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text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">The compilation, Little Puritan Stories (Pioneer, Christmas,
Bound-Girl and Rebel), was reissued with the original illustrations in 1931. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGuGFmgWydym5ukI8Sq_ROBUeuYyduaYnBnSFFYx3o-ADCJkzIM8ANzEomjMY_6azw0TN_9xPT60YMMjRKt_UORc8xEqvJ6hwaya0by4Roaut4I3GfEsb5ytGrl6c-pfTDpSXzZHbPCPaXnZ8rncQM4t0B29SGGkhr-oY2xBDjDllGj2f5gx7zX9Rnzg/s951/little%20puritan%20stories%201931.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="951" data-original-width="831" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGuGFmgWydym5ukI8Sq_ROBUeuYyduaYnBnSFFYx3o-ADCJkzIM8ANzEomjMY_6azw0TN_9xPT60YMMjRKt_UORc8xEqvJ6hwaya0by4Roaut4I3GfEsb5ytGrl6c-pfTDpSXzZHbPCPaXnZ8rncQM4t0B29SGGkhr-oY2xBDjDllGj2f5gx7zX9Rnzg/s320/little%20puritan%20stories%201931.JPG" width="280" /></a></div><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
series ran from 1897 through 1905, with a new volume appearing annually except
in 1902. I find it significant that the first four titles were illustrated by
Amy Sacker, and she is so credited on the title pages. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh91RLTkbC7Ktk3KptTLtT-5KmglhF4SYleqBWRvr3jNbQThX-QF_YKZOJ7TBaYaLzrkK2NE0zM8zzG5L40AhsQfr0NzrYdpiNmn-SDjC-4cTFX9lsPKsX4KWg3DKJZzUJx2LtvqMf78p3rfLeYK37NtbQDYSgm48XPuOXdwWQRmyMbppeMdgVvQm9SMg/s619/Loyallittlemaid%20title%20page%201897.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="619" data-original-width="381" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh91RLTkbC7Ktk3KptTLtT-5KmglhF4SYleqBWRvr3jNbQThX-QF_YKZOJ7TBaYaLzrkK2NE0zM8zzG5L40AhsQfr0NzrYdpiNmn-SDjC-4cTFX9lsPKsX4KWg3DKJZzUJx2LtvqMf78p3rfLeYK37NtbQDYSgm48XPuOXdwWQRmyMbppeMdgVvQm9SMg/w246-h400/Loyallittlemaid%20title%20page%201897.jpg" width="246" /></a></div></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-DLlZO6NFBs2MxuBHHh7hoM8H1PPtR3uRAFZ1v2bT1OOUku_gPf0-2Fs8-GOgdelk7AJxmOxaihg6eA_oLqnJorOoM9AaeYNBkopsvbyK86ZdMpDCZX5vCD4YmxpV9VIJ96PC0R7H5JLkoRCkndZW8ljtZw-oGXPI9aX0gGKP2gVbFZHax-DlQ1vtRA/s531/little%20puritan%20REBEL%20tp.JPG" style="clear: right; 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font-size: 12pt;"><br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">As noted above, she also provided the binding
designs for three of the titles, although only one, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">A Loyal Little Maid,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> carries her monogram.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpkYsvE-oGZKIed9dBY2rwvnxQjUoZmMbXV88nY5fyeiAYlOComVuc_rK6DwNIOKbHeR1bXMtB17-6y6YdGD5dW0qe11B8ZQXMsXWq4ub40kbCyHP2rX7fAp14cJ-YNY073IZJ4ej925V_8IhW9FAvvxZUQpO6HkELvWnALdxIVguZaYS8ERyrVPzaYA/s232/Loyallittlemaidreduced%201896%20monogram.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="232" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpkYsvE-oGZKIed9dBY2rwvnxQjUoZmMbXV88nY5fyeiAYlOComVuc_rK6DwNIOKbHeR1bXMtB17-6y6YdGD5dW0qe11B8ZQXMsXWq4ub40kbCyHP2rX7fAp14cJ-YNY073IZJ4ej925V_8IhW9FAvvxZUQpO6HkELvWnALdxIVguZaYS8ERyrVPzaYA/w320-h243/Loyallittlemaidreduced%201896%20monogram.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">So, with four already published titles associated with Sacker, one
might assume that the next volume would also include her distinctive style of
illustrations.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">But perhaps she was unavailable
due to commitments to other projects or had lost interest in continuing with
this series. Gullans and Espey note that this flagging of interest often happened
with binding styles established by Margaret Armstrong for individual authors
including Paul Bourget, Henry Van Dyke, John C. Van Dyke, Mary Raymond Shipman
Andrews and, perhaps most famously, Myrtle Reed, with later bindings designed
by other artists [12]. Presumably Armstrong was not the only artist to turn
to other, more rewarding work.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">L.C. Page
might have wished to go in another direction with the illustrations too.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">But through force of precedent, an illustrator’s name with some similarity to A.M. Sacker, a rush to get this book
out, or any number of other explanations—speculations are free!—Schmidt became
Sacker, at least briefly.</span></div><div><p></p><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Or
perhaps L.C. Page just goofed. There is
intriguing evidence that this might have been the case, and it comes from two later volumes in the Little Puritan Series: A Puritan Knight Errant, and A Little Puritan Cavalier. I mentioned
above that although we hold all the titles in this series, all are not first
printings, one of these being A Puritan Knight Errant, which we have in 1906
and 1908 printings only. The cover
design by “MH” pictured above is actually from a digitized copy of the first
printing (1903) held by the Library of Congress.</span></div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSpkW6w9U6YWEOGpP7jjSjq12Skq-aqGuz8ERMDiIsOCS3xlDGUXw8awM4cy-EqbV00aEJIxpXeI04tpnbvGtM0FVs7FDWGdVQ_5ZqSatcoss-y--jGArzINY9rV5k0J28uHgJ-6dQNeuOUNs3OXAMkPBCH7zb8syHyyMMiV46cTS0DUgrwxcreRqWfg/s921/Puritan%20knight%20errant%201903%20c1902%20LC%20title%20page.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="921" data-original-width="591" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSpkW6w9U6YWEOGpP7jjSjq12Skq-aqGuz8ERMDiIsOCS3xlDGUXw8awM4cy-EqbV00aEJIxpXeI04tpnbvGtM0FVs7FDWGdVQ_5ZqSatcoss-y--jGArzINY9rV5k0J28uHgJ-6dQNeuOUNs3OXAMkPBCH7zb8syHyyMMiV46cTS0DUgrwxcreRqWfg/w256-h400/Puritan%20knight%20errant%201903%20c1902%20LC%20title%20page.JPG" width="256" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxxaHouA9T3ePmlqgGty4LiJMnXGDh9_I5TbAtzP5ypc8IjW21HrfD09nYx-6n6CeEIsMFCqmNeR04KUo-oLVDgEzGNHPLDAxpRi8Y6NoIRT32h25NO7-19HRbgqc6tHZKSeQaXhYXuTk18eQ06sQsL-5EpiSCZMFFprOmWeL8l6qOD2mYp_5PQnmUzw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="256" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxxaHouA9T3ePmlqgGty4LiJMnXGDh9_I5TbAtzP5ypc8IjW21HrfD09nYx-6n6CeEIsMFCqmNeR04KUo-oLVDgEzGNHPLDAxpRi8Y6NoIRT32h25NO7-19HRbgqc6tHZKSeQaXhYXuTk18eQ06sQsL-5EpiSCZMFFprOmWeL8l6qOD2mYp_5PQnmUzw=w257-h400" width="257" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAC6iNUoSLi5LLYU1r0HD8lEXp55YTixbBlZ2vdujHpOJBqdxZGw3xNPmBbyjljxgjT3sBeOSyuwYZHlGmypHOzC6nAXnnLhHB2uSdW5zxiZKuUJa9ffr306dZxZdurL7r4UjalwtkLrDKw4K8Xmfj1cHjeXg6xvu8KbocOyJAUUSyipb3RbOI0i8cCQ/s222/Puritan%20knight%20errant%201903%20c1902%20LC%20title%20page%20verso%20detail.JPG" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="222" data-original-width="183" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAC6iNUoSLi5LLYU1r0HD8lEXp55YTixbBlZ2vdujHpOJBqdxZGw3xNPmBbyjljxgjT3sBeOSyuwYZHlGmypHOzC6nAXnnLhHB2uSdW5zxiZKuUJa9ffr306dZxZdurL7r4UjalwtkLrDKw4K8Xmfj1cHjeXg6xvu8KbocOyJAUUSyipb3RbOI0i8cCQ/w165-h200/Puritan%20knight%20errant%201903%20c1902%20LC%20title%20page%20verso%20detail.JPG" width="165" /></a></div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"></p><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">There is no indication that this title is in the
Cosy Corner Series, either on the cover, preliminaries or among the eight pages of
advertisements at the end of the volume, and the catalog record indicates that
the book is 21 cm tall. L.J. (Lewis
Jesse) Bridgman is identified as the illustrator, and the illustration facing
page 104 is signed with his monogram.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqXIZ7XCpw8QhKAodmIX2OSgx7R5_rzr-ea5977QiluzDW-xnm0F7QDJE6eHIt94Y6JVVzXdzEtBNwRHmdvFsRyFXtypqLj5y8kSKWNGZ8HSvQ4Tu964dUR2JZP7Z_Sm96aAaAo14QMCf_5fiuKDkOOhTnRcHBx9HsvlKLl4xRIO13dugEkPqQ-Rnlqw/s921/Puritan%20knight%20errant%201903%20c1902%20LC%20facing%20p%20104%20monogram2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="921" data-original-width="591" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqXIZ7XCpw8QhKAodmIX2OSgx7R5_rzr-ea5977QiluzDW-xnm0F7QDJE6eHIt94Y6JVVzXdzEtBNwRHmdvFsRyFXtypqLj5y8kSKWNGZ8HSvQ4Tu964dUR2JZP7Z_Sm96aAaAo14QMCf_5fiuKDkOOhTnRcHBx9HsvlKLl4xRIO13dugEkPqQ-Rnlqw/w411-h640/Puritan%20knight%20errant%201903%20c1902%20LC%20facing%20p%20104%20monogram2.jpg" width="411" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">Apparently,
Page wished to also issue this title (or they neglected to do so with the first
printing) along with the other Little Puritan books in the Cosy Corner Series. One of our copies, the fourth
impression, July 1906, is in the Cosy Corner Series (stated on the cover and
new title page, though not in the ads at the front or back of the volume). The book measures 18.3 x 12.9 x 1.8 cm. But with either the fourth, third, or second
impression--whenever the new Cosy Corner format was introduced—a double error
was also introduced: </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihLnogQoT4am-K5OX1mkkqnPVxZxCBTHS9_K_3at72w5r253dW_ZyHwnOGBKSl5afIwre8puq7yxjfRVsMyoXNbndBJGrJnTo39sW_RPqgmqd0Molv15UWKWDT_CzNBStp9CieU53jnmlomBou5PEKF2CV3ZVEMFW5m1xPgiZ5pvqnsEfhh96kvsa2ag/s946/little%20puritan%20cavalier.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="946" data-original-width="717" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihLnogQoT4am-K5OX1mkkqnPVxZxCBTHS9_K_3at72w5r253dW_ZyHwnOGBKSl5afIwre8puq7yxjfRVsMyoXNbndBJGrJnTo39sW_RPqgmqd0Molv15UWKWDT_CzNBStp9CieU53jnmlomBou5PEKF2CV3ZVEMFW5m1xPgiZ5pvqnsEfhh96kvsa2ag/s320/little%20puritan%20cavalier.JPG" width="243" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgddnp8JKPBCQADS_ROSRwH4ktVSfcjTIO1_dzQW1_aKU2jMLLbDsTDwXN8NVbnJbM_PFX_JgOAjNFjMCCmuVwbvnnq_RS9jZSxD3QaTIIhwK9Q1tiiWuG0QYHTr5JUAkhx7AVRDVU9ntwLrxbDlhWUWAOqPCPw1WZ1uS_PzDmurijUZok8myCGZNCyjA/s912/Puritan%20knight%20errant%201906%20we%20have.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="912" data-original-width="734" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgddnp8JKPBCQADS_ROSRwH4ktVSfcjTIO1_dzQW1_aKU2jMLLbDsTDwXN8NVbnJbM_PFX_JgOAjNFjMCCmuVwbvnnq_RS9jZSxD3QaTIIhwK9Q1tiiWuG0QYHTr5JUAkhx7AVRDVU9ntwLrxbDlhWUWAOqPCPw1WZ1uS_PzDmurijUZok8myCGZNCyjA/s320/Puritan%20knight%20errant%201906%20we%20have.JPG" width="258" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"> Oops!</span></div></div></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And here are the title pages from the 1903 and 1906 printings. Note the illustrators: </span></div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVyVP4FNSMGrqyrmL8Brqb2fA8Qc9YZX-wEZkwpN-wHoBNJT9s67ASqYOkt3k4yvzRdpl2ONj7DopwzUaRmZUn-yRK2rhwBtaYcz28hvVWo9_9bg3idMJFNJpb2GTYdY5vTMClkiYhkSbsTwfG2XwmJ-5Jq8XGrDYWPsEM9r4m307qe3sZG_Pn83bdJQ/s921/Puritan%20knight%20errant%201903%20c1902%20LC%20title%20page.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="921" data-original-width="591" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVyVP4FNSMGrqyrmL8Brqb2fA8Qc9YZX-wEZkwpN-wHoBNJT9s67ASqYOkt3k4yvzRdpl2ONj7DopwzUaRmZUn-yRK2rhwBtaYcz28hvVWo9_9bg3idMJFNJpb2GTYdY5vTMClkiYhkSbsTwfG2XwmJ-5Jq8XGrDYWPsEM9r4m307qe3sZG_Pn83bdJQ/w256-h400/Puritan%20knight%20errant%201903%20c1902%20LC%20title%20page.JPG" width="256" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBBgXUQ-Rg6WG8lQpqsNZo_F5LC12E98lO6CI-a5jYA1CeblYdjycBMcsIfS5WDfL_ebsiDmtcfk_3yirCUy3d_36vHBFDNWZz9bul7MRpq9nHt_Gyluwko6dlQrqoErfHwDY7R6hw7oIBC1iT4wf7aeNaLRR49dIrtGYzb83-jFGpn-ZILK7IEhTH6Q/s704/Puritan%20knight%20errant%201906%20we%20have%20title%20page.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="704" data-original-width="473" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBBgXUQ-Rg6WG8lQpqsNZo_F5LC12E98lO6CI-a5jYA1CeblYdjycBMcsIfS5WDfL_ebsiDmtcfk_3yirCUy3d_36vHBFDNWZz9bul7MRpq9nHt_Gyluwko6dlQrqoErfHwDY7R6hw7oIBC1iT4wf7aeNaLRR49dIrtGYzb83-jFGpn-ZILK7IEhTH6Q/w269-h400/Puritan%20knight%20errant%201906%20we%20have%20title%20page.JPG" width="269" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Oops … again! </span></p><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">We can speculate that Page, wishing to publish the Knight Errant in the
new format and reduced size, reused the cover of the last book published in the
series, A Little Puritan Cavalier, first published in June, 1905 (our copy is a
second impression, April 1910), rather than having to reduce the size of the die
by at least 1.3 cm. or commission a new image</span>. Close counts, right?
We can hope that the title page error for the illustrator is simply
because they forgot, and not that they just didn’t care. Whatever the explanation is, the Puritan Knight Errant is "errant" by either of its definitions. </span><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></p><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A final oddity can be seen with our 1908 printing, which states on the
title page verso “Published, August, 1902; fourth impression, June,
1908.” (And another oddity, remember that our smaller Cosy Corner version was also called the fourth impression, but is dated July, 1906!)</span></div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2KORyU_T03Lf6vJ9AROzHZBCNqX8IMSDhl2FC8wu9Q4164LH5Qt84V7PB4IdUH7g0EyePki_Z45PnRQdON-V1jAdEcOqQ_7Ani0Z8kIv3K3Xd1FaJNjO-NiyMsP9kSJa-spEDnPUiiyigaVUqMWWiLqDWn1aBy7w3GOKt_g3wNy_AKoI_qIxecsLPmA/s925/Puritan%20knight%20errant%201908%20we%20have.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="925" data-original-width="768" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2KORyU_T03Lf6vJ9AROzHZBCNqX8IMSDhl2FC8wu9Q4164LH5Qt84V7PB4IdUH7g0EyePki_Z45PnRQdON-V1jAdEcOqQ_7Ani0Z8kIv3K3Xd1FaJNjO-NiyMsP9kSJa-spEDnPUiiyigaVUqMWWiLqDWn1aBy7w3GOKt_g3wNy_AKoI_qIxecsLPmA/w333-h400/Puritan%20knight%20errant%201908%20we%20have.JPG" width="333" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVnzS1qSfSiqJtENhYFLPaTzLRB_iUMaYBnOcXjBCb3jEdHB1VfWl2IjtOZPZDeLKyTlhPY7pR01PPsag0G4uheEiyqqNa3SomCslpCzb6FPqEvnJDx_PokPtWbVS2OQ2xhxrKf4EnHE3XwpUeZJB7fo_3oOcPecyX9RsyhSkmqYYI3mEdVaDpYd51Cw/s802/Puritan%20knight%20errant%201908%20we%20have%20title%20page2.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="802" data-original-width="465" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVnzS1qSfSiqJtENhYFLPaTzLRB_iUMaYBnOcXjBCb3jEdHB1VfWl2IjtOZPZDeLKyTlhPY7pR01PPsag0G4uheEiyqqNa3SomCslpCzb6FPqEvnJDx_PokPtWbVS2OQ2xhxrKf4EnHE3XwpUeZJB7fo_3oOcPecyX9RsyhSkmqYYI3mEdVaDpYd51Cw/w233-h400/Puritan%20knight%20errant%201908%20we%20have%20title%20page2.JPG" width="233" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></p><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">With
this printing we’re back to the larger format and original binding design by “MH.” The book is now in the “Princess Series” (20.3
x 13.8 x 3.3 cm., on heavier paper with wider margins), with a new title page to
reflect this (the 1903 printing shows no more evidence of this series
than it does the Cosy Corner Series), and the series title also on the cover.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The larger format
Princess Series (titles generally 21 cm tall) was established by 1908 with its uniform illustrated
title pages. Perhaps Page wished to make the
Puritan Knight Errant available in both series to maximize sales as both seem to
have been quite successful, judging from the number of titles issued in each. This seems possible, as an advertisement
in the Feb. 29, 1908 issue of Publishers’ Weekly (p. 917) for the “The Princess Series of Copyright Fiction for Girls” notes that the series was inaugurated
in 1907 with 13 volumes, and that a further 12 titles were added due “to the demand
for high class copyright fiction for young girls at a popular price together
with the handsome appearance of the books themselves.” The original 13 volumes are listed in the
Sept. 28, 1907 issue, the first appearance of the series in Publishers' Weekly. The Puritan Knight Errant appears in the Jan.
26, 1907 issue, but only as part of the Cosy Corner Series; however in the Sept. 26,
1908 issue it appears as part of the Princess Series, along with the 11 other 1908
titles. The title first appears in 1902 and 1903, but not as part of any Page
series; it then reappears in the Sept. 15, 1906 issue where it is described as “First
published in 1902. Now included in the Cosy Corner Series”--with illustrations
by L.J. Bridgman. It would be interesting
to see if any copies of the Cosy Corner version are out there with the illustrator
corrected from Etheldred Barry to Bridgman on the title page.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span>Before closing this post, we should take at least a brief look at the
binding design on A Little Puritan Pioneer.
As mentioned above, I consider this the least effective of the 10
designs in this installment of Cosy Corner Series books (images of the
remaining nine designs are included in footnote three). The library holds two copies of the book; the
first is the 1901 issue with the “Amy F. Sacker” misprint and is bound in dark
yellow calico-texture cloth. The second has
the corrected title page and is bound in olive gray calico-texture cloth.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh95M9OBr8d_XHqbalIKZeiOj2mFLqKS8h7-4wrP6IFuYWK_7dZC7bbtPncGGGCMwtEQLKAV5YV30epX90TSmiW77oLvqi5QmmTB12I1AmXsbvyNZQ3_7c_7mYI0NYo3HLd3BRORJdoXAsD5IDNBe5MVG2WLXeEpsgLlJ1ERFpOv095SatKEbzCdJ77Tg/s799/sacker%20on%20title%20page%20cover-%20our%20copy.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="799" data-original-width="588" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh95M9OBr8d_XHqbalIKZeiOj2mFLqKS8h7-4wrP6IFuYWK_7dZC7bbtPncGGGCMwtEQLKAV5YV30epX90TSmiW77oLvqi5QmmTB12I1AmXsbvyNZQ3_7c_7mYI0NYo3HLd3BRORJdoXAsD5IDNBe5MVG2WLXeEpsgLlJ1ERFpOv095SatKEbzCdJ77Tg/w294-h400/sacker%20on%20title%20page%20cover-%20our%20copy.JPG" width="294" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1901 issue with Sacker title page</td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiccklzPy2UieqYr8VM-TY3IHdex5zju9S4JRa8j_FlsWwFtOrlf5wJjD8XOkcf6xHa-MbVJwNiulf8AncvfUK1_0Umas5xjU4RBY_K2-cxVVPvI_-Bklu4u58ofiBfNNdMdFrpstaflTGSWvvEOGdYVs1_i1NaFtQmEQuTNW2oerk5ymZH87FRI_5wdw/s381/our%20cover%20from%20atb%20site.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="381" data-original-width="300" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiccklzPy2UieqYr8VM-TY3IHdex5zju9S4JRa8j_FlsWwFtOrlf5wJjD8XOkcf6xHa-MbVJwNiulf8AncvfUK1_0Umas5xjU4RBY_K2-cxVVPvI_-Bklu4u58ofiBfNNdMdFrpstaflTGSWvvEOGdYVs1_i1NaFtQmEQuTNW2oerk5ymZH87FRI_5wdw/w316-h400/our%20cover%20from%20atb%20site.JPG" width="316" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1902 issue with Schmidt title page</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Since the Boston Public Library copy with the misprint is bound in olive
gray cloth, we probably should not make much of the color difference. Perhaps the yellow cloth issue came first and the Boston Public copy came from a later binding run that continued into 1902, but this is only speculation. Both issues are stamped in reddish-brown, green, blue, yellow and black, and the background sky appears to have once been stamped in another color, perhaps white, cream or gray, but time and use have made it impossible to tell on any of the three copies. </span> </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrNEwKQIIYwDh9Q2wiFHkzx1LtiiPHRFilc_7tlzcHrBjCUwt_uJX46dMkLktyMDdyhRE4naWBEJiQsQtaoWV5iDgB6kPnJHdBgMv3Fq1CPU6co9q9L1HVkh_Ddb_Ooloz7kUljRA-ZUaY_AtUGZMiP7lkIhU5TjC4xzjeFcCw40EHd1saAbKH1it-vQ/s687/sacker%20on%20title%20page%20cover-Internet%20archive.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="687" data-original-width="458" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrNEwKQIIYwDh9Q2wiFHkzx1LtiiPHRFilc_7tlzcHrBjCUwt_uJX46dMkLktyMDdyhRE4naWBEJiQsQtaoWV5iDgB6kPnJHdBgMv3Fq1CPU6co9q9L1HVkh_Ddb_Ooloz7kUljRA-ZUaY_AtUGZMiP7lkIhU5TjC4xzjeFcCw40EHd1saAbKH1it-vQ/w266-h400/sacker%20on%20title%20page%20cover-Internet%20archive.JPG" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Boston Public Library 1901 issue with Sacker title page</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">There is one difference in our two copies that shows that some work was done on the binding stamps between the first and second issues. When put side by side it is very clear that a larger size font was used for the author's name on the spine. Was this change made as part of the reissue of the book with a corrected title page? Or was it made as a separate correction of the binding only?</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkkqRB8YI6TMbMeeflSx653p5dH5SFmir3Yr5ztGNlOGjoaV5qnKwJp7sRSgSvlLf1O0g-PHSEvxx9b935T3U6iPr7nec1Qkj3Fp4PBxzu405pf1sgP9f0ZTHcB7a5VWFCaiFG5dt6HjWlsiqz8RYzyAqc1uPZu41R3fNC637k8JRq24K0CzgMtnebmw/s779/spines%20little%20puritan%20pioneer%20arrow%20white.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="779" data-original-width="132" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkkqRB8YI6TMbMeeflSx653p5dH5SFmir3Yr5ztGNlOGjoaV5qnKwJp7sRSgSvlLf1O0g-PHSEvxx9b935T3U6iPr7nec1Qkj3Fp4PBxzu405pf1sgP9f0ZTHcB7a5VWFCaiFG5dt6HjWlsiqz8RYzyAqc1uPZu41R3fNC637k8JRq24K0CzgMtnebmw/s320/spines%20little%20puritan%20pioneer%20arrow%20white.JPG" width="54" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPmIdyEII5gkylFImXhmzTb323nY_fwlmuWhRB6R40SBxY3oLfHlpyoffXsJaZBHyo2Jd8r7z9_6Tu4LYXiJ9obQO7XLnE6MohLsJSah923b2eRorW_ouWet3b3peVJhMDYXYL_TxFWeTkWpJ_nFqad-lvHhkknEDtAj-kROunrAytaFerOfIWokx2pA/s375/spines%20little%20puritan%20pioneer%20arrow%20white%20large.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="325" data-original-width="375" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPmIdyEII5gkylFImXhmzTb323nY_fwlmuWhRB6R40SBxY3oLfHlpyoffXsJaZBHyo2Jd8r7z9_6Tu4LYXiJ9obQO7XLnE6MohLsJSah923b2eRorW_ouWet3b3peVJhMDYXYL_TxFWeTkWpJ_nFqad-lvHhkknEDtAj-kROunrAytaFerOfIWokx2pA/s320/spines%20little%20puritan%20pioneer%20arrow%20white%20large.JPG" width="320" /></a></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Our copy of the 1902 issue also has a registration error on the cover, with the dark green of the trees at upper left stamped too far to the left, leaving the right side uncolored. Is this a sign of a hasty reprinting? Neither of the 1901 copies show this error.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJVPAE_yUh5spuAIGWlLm-QZXgibcbw_S70gmWy06PY1fXcOG3Gj3CNzKQ0ZSTJXPUcwfeIxNADy5aYYn891Goi-bXUCCkgFi5EhRlwxOCOmrie-0gVvVw6LzXcgcX2M5NieLtHsoIgNxvXUNvJ58W6C8apE6LnyWi95UA3HqB_jA4nq38QIoBrc8goQ/s621/our%20cover%20from%20atb%20site%20detail%20of%20bad%20register.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="368" data-original-width="621" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJVPAE_yUh5spuAIGWlLm-QZXgibcbw_S70gmWy06PY1fXcOG3Gj3CNzKQ0ZSTJXPUcwfeIxNADy5aYYn891Goi-bXUCCkgFi5EhRlwxOCOmrie-0gVvVw6LzXcgcX2M5NieLtHsoIgNxvXUNvJ58W6C8apE6LnyWi95UA3HqB_jA4nq38QIoBrc8goQ/s320/our%20cover%20from%20atb%20site%20detail%20of%20bad%20register.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The binding design itself is chiefly a crude rendering of the Schmitt illustration on page 27.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgovSzJe5-bU_xtSnua9ZDRysa-bTuDb2W5FJUFAc88bRi3VUnkV-RE8NUKFoqsAx9tUPha5MihQ_h6Xj-S4PyzRbHqFDdoMCNeWPPMC8seGtkdeArA9yP6WIUCLZK-5B9Y3X9pNJDcPe1_iytkJrnBGWrjXGHJVYOhE6hLMmbuyDLmdvirDuY-fx5OeQ/s613/sacker%20on%20title%20page%20-%20page%2027%20ill%20enlarged.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="365" data-original-width="613" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgovSzJe5-bU_xtSnua9ZDRysa-bTuDb2W5FJUFAc88bRi3VUnkV-RE8NUKFoqsAx9tUPha5MihQ_h6Xj-S4PyzRbHqFDdoMCNeWPPMC8seGtkdeArA9yP6WIUCLZK-5B9Y3X9pNJDcPe1_iytkJrnBGWrjXGHJVYOhE6hLMmbuyDLmdvirDuY-fx5OeQ/w400-h239/sacker%20on%20title%20page%20-%20page%2027%20ill%20enlarged.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDWg8umFQrg5L0WEcIjw9WeTySi-GcKNLjfDBYn1P2Fdx2G1750C2VbG-VTdayTz3cvjV3mMalj52EKIH4r8OJBeYJVotmFzWLtObsxfg2-RqsshxUcgKcB3L7bs77Gttj3PR8-f5g9vOWIXUCp3Xk3bZuOiECfrEuX1_MMBH6OvFB0t7PcVUhyeWmPg/s1028/sacker%20on%20title%20page%20cover%20detail-%20our%20copy%202.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="1028" height="403" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDWg8umFQrg5L0WEcIjw9WeTySi-GcKNLjfDBYn1P2Fdx2G1750C2VbG-VTdayTz3cvjV3mMalj52EKIH4r8OJBeYJVotmFzWLtObsxfg2-RqsshxUcgKcB3L7bs77Gttj3PR8-f5g9vOWIXUCp3Xk3bZuOiECfrEuX1_MMBH6OvFB0t7PcVUhyeWmPg/w640-h403/sacker%20on%20title%20page%20cover%20detail-%20our%20copy%202.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The figures in the canoe are particularly bad--even disturbing--with the young girl looking not at the almost featureless man paddling the canoe, but out at us from under a swathe of blue cloth. Her face looks more like a cutout, as faces often looked in the cheap woodcuts used to illustrate children's books in the previous century. It's a marked drop off in quality from the previous four titles in the series and a low point in the series. Once again, I wonder why, after using well-known artists for the first four books, this choice was made by L.C. Page.</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Schmitt's original illustration appeared in the second chapter of the book with the intriguing title "The Crab." After a quick glance through the early pages of the book, I discovered that the canoeing scene was not a casual paddle across a lake but was actually the culmination of a rescue from what seemed to be a monstrous crab. The girl, Anne Chilton, while searching for fresh water on a shunned peninsula for her feverishly sick mother and brother, wanders into a wide marshy area. This region, legend had it, was the home of a giant killer crab. As the tide comes in she finds herself in what seemed to be ribbed sand in long tentacles with claw-like extremities. Suddenly the claws stir and it seems "all about her the tentacles were waking into horrid life … She had rushed into the very danger from which she fled, and was standing upon the back of the Crab!" A hermit hears her cries and paddles to the rescue, pulling her into his canoe. "The water was over the spot she had just quitted, and, as in a nightmare, Anne saw the crab rise to the surface, and stretch out long, waving arms after its escaping victim."<br /></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Now THAT would make a great cover design!<br /><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>(And spoiler: it wasn't a crab). [13]</span><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">References</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[1]. Many thanks to my daughter who made the edited Highlander/Sacker image, mercifully replacing the one I originally put together.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">[2].
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sacker headpieces for contents and
illustrations appear on 69 titles, almost all of which are on publications by
Boston publishers L.C. Page or Joseph Knight. Other Boston publishers using
these designs were: Ginn & Co. (one title); Little, Brown (six titles);
Houghton Mifflin (three titles); Oliver Ditson (one title), and Charles Goodspeed (one title).</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">New York publishers using them
are Caldwell (one title), and A. Wessels (one title). Thanks to Mark for the many images used from his website. Other images from UNCG's American Publishers Trade Bindings digital collection and the Internet Archive. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">[3]. The 10 titles listed in the advertisement for the Cosy Corner Series are: 1).
A Little Puritan Pioneer;</span></div><div><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">2). Frances Margaret Fox, Betty of Old Mackinaw; </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">3). John T. Wheelwright, A Bad Penny, with the monogram of the designer, Alfred Brennan;</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif7zAyGtn8AIBJkDqzCWuyRYGf0_LKaNYmAo5LxatjB3eXrc0BbYlJBOonsQP1roUKQNMVS6HgDD3A_ZDCFMokDmIdUxGUuucUZ4pz6BfoVlTt-0cPcQojdB5mGf33b04hBEtOvcZTgVxFsUl8GgkqHVmpNmYeMIUjJyJHwNLVa09rJSy4Yh5hbEikaw/s942/bad%20penny%20Alfred%20Brennan.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="942" data-original-width="734" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif7zAyGtn8AIBJkDqzCWuyRYGf0_LKaNYmAo5LxatjB3eXrc0BbYlJBOonsQP1roUKQNMVS6HgDD3A_ZDCFMokDmIdUxGUuucUZ4pz6BfoVlTt-0cPcQojdB5mGf33b04hBEtOvcZTgVxFsUl8GgkqHVmpNmYeMIUjJyJHwNLVa09rJSy4Yh5hbEikaw/s320/bad%20penny%20Alfred%20Brennan.JPG" width="249" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1oA-CfF9F--H0hy0ka9_O_knUcVjrDCN_zHRBaw9ung7lJaoPL-w1CThj6yzoVBUTZdDbzKr0xY3KALIxY11Am5p-iV1IbyurNhAHFWyIP5cotwJMpLw1NuLnyWDhhISa-FtVEwx0hKsp4xc3yr7_AUidDIKBkB5evG2IBr5rcbN0cwTCfL7LmhmCEg/s947/betty%20of%20old%20mackinaw.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="947" data-original-width="729" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1oA-CfF9F--H0hy0ka9_O_knUcVjrDCN_zHRBaw9ung7lJaoPL-w1CThj6yzoVBUTZdDbzKr0xY3KALIxY11Am5p-iV1IbyurNhAHFWyIP5cotwJMpLw1NuLnyWDhhISa-FtVEwx0hKsp4xc3yr7_AUidDIKBkB5evG2IBr5rcbN0cwTCfL7LmhmCEg/s320/betty%20of%20old%20mackinaw.JPG" width="246" /></a><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">4). Louise de la Rame (Ouida), Findelkind; </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDxzz0RQqZGTDOfaPsgX3zL0HH--K0nrt-5fqwfvbXJ1dBE1VhZ5P07JhUxBRpHxXPaWOpB5ZmrK3Mt1TSkAyA9zkEZMtdmBigaTacPoDhD1aod9bKQSZs3iQLxtVwvy78jy_J9CSPz1XZjveIEGrxuijDG1FR_K7tPaEAiGzjUdniX20eGWrlJKDQyQ/s947/Findelkind.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="947" data-original-width="710" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDxzz0RQqZGTDOfaPsgX3zL0HH--K0nrt-5fqwfvbXJ1dBE1VhZ5P07JhUxBRpHxXPaWOpB5ZmrK3Mt1TSkAyA9zkEZMtdmBigaTacPoDhD1aod9bKQSZs3iQLxtVwvy78jy_J9CSPz1XZjveIEGrxuijDG1FR_K7tPaEAiGzjUdniX20eGWrlJKDQyQ/s320/Findelkind.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">5). Mrs. Ewing, Madam
Liberality; </span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhq5WayufNXYWY1ABXSVEJP9AQ8jCqNSdpesgEBkQd0M8Sxuo2m0Tdk4Iog8l78d5ytHNNyZk4zELKGbi43MgwqR8sZjELQkU5hBsJbGmGl4_N9lLqSM7Ow9xqeUdMdVxoxFVbawreMvBHh5sBQ0f4DXa9QEnrqJ0tieUVT5JZSh6K8_r0xuIFAbyI7gg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="222" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhq5WayufNXYWY1ABXSVEJP9AQ8jCqNSdpesgEBkQd0M8Sxuo2m0Tdk4Iog8l78d5ytHNNyZk4zELKGbi43MgwqR8sZjELQkU5hBsJbGmGl4_N9lLqSM7Ow9xqeUdMdVxoxFVbawreMvBHh5sBQ0f4DXa9QEnrqJ0tieUVT5JZSh6K8_r0xuIFAbyI7gg=w223-h320" width="223" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">6). Frances E. Crompton, Gatty and I; </span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5nnDfWxgwe8pWxCrzQA0VZr000_XNCmpQxM_HnmKYBraVGngBGQQbwP6aQxqYUR1VhHeJjVjtcZaaTP2Iy72AKjMYjNiALS-e5WBY6NCLG8gXRUH7fdRmj1G3xCxJfgwg84S41jZ6QEKj_zAZ1wPk9lal-JU_s0tQ7ywiIt6AEkNqUHdsVKReTMUftg/s477/gatty%20and%20i.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="477" data-original-width="370" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5nnDfWxgwe8pWxCrzQA0VZr000_XNCmpQxM_HnmKYBraVGngBGQQbwP6aQxqYUR1VhHeJjVjtcZaaTP2Iy72AKjMYjNiALS-e5WBY6NCLG8gXRUH7fdRmj1G3xCxJfgwg84S41jZ6QEKj_zAZ1wPk9lal-JU_s0tQ7ywiIt6AEkNqUHdsVKReTMUftg/s320/gatty%20and%20i.JPG" width="248" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">7). A. Comyns Carr, The Fairy of the Rhone;</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzkRI8lUTwDB26tnWn986DE7P8nskGfMi9TuJh027ONoxdsXU7enOzS7l8Bxwarm_sSPOQLNk1jRq05v3VyInJC1yB2-ate4WgAbRXWoaBwV3h-9aYVTTIj7Kv2MNqAdJAWowAUOuqPuegpliAjX3o6TgxZ4rPj0ILdF7f8L5kwjMaqjR46Bmyvr2eNQ/s702/fairy%20of%20the%20rhone%20our%20copy.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="702" data-original-width="489" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzkRI8lUTwDB26tnWn986DE7P8nskGfMi9TuJh027ONoxdsXU7enOzS7l8Bxwarm_sSPOQLNk1jRq05v3VyInJC1yB2-ate4WgAbRXWoaBwV3h-9aYVTTIj7Kv2MNqAdJAWowAUOuqPuegpliAjX3o6TgxZ4rPj0ILdF7f8L5kwjMaqjR46Bmyvr2eNQ/s320/fairy%20of%20the%20rhone%20our%20copy.JPG" width="223" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">8). E. Livingston Prescott, A Small, Small Child;</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifLgBg0mgHZ1-2sNgPOw-vlDf6UT7-iBfxhb3RGhiju9EKkzBjAZCVtcZSSHNNW_KLWqj-cnMccQ9QfBUjVlD0h7E5g8Ida8SoDKhPgHwmxy_4bKBa8wlyzx89eAzLCfpAiJcCMcVz_EXDKMB5kf3RVQD6yUfAVIxTFWn_29UFEEfANUhPqvWUr_WcFA/s457/small%20small%20child.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="345" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifLgBg0mgHZ1-2sNgPOw-vlDf6UT7-iBfxhb3RGhiju9EKkzBjAZCVtcZSSHNNW_KLWqj-cnMccQ9QfBUjVlD0h7E5g8Ida8SoDKhPgHwmxy_4bKBa8wlyzx89eAzLCfpAiJcCMcVz_EXDKMB5kf3RVQD6yUfAVIxTFWn_29UFEEfANUhPqvWUr_WcFA/s320/small%20small%20child.JPG" width="242" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">9). Mary Knight Potter, Peggy’s Trial;</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0rLgXHMB_BmQDQAoFVPAYp6JZh1MKsW0raBF6FdwSQHoj0_0ldV1nZcwgSqHQKP_lOxuS_NBWQn5P5aytBByRblTj8Orz8fM5I5Dv_MrULfeVk4B6yIm_ukAtKLZLvPPoPNfxSUSdWU3pns4AnOMsYcOytAf_B14YUpwvSuhtyDryLKp3MJ185IU4oQ/s797/Peggys%20trial%20our%20copy.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="797" data-original-width="555" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0rLgXHMB_BmQDQAoFVPAYp6JZh1MKsW0raBF6FdwSQHoj0_0ldV1nZcwgSqHQKP_lOxuS_NBWQn5P5aytBByRblTj8Orz8fM5I5Dv_MrULfeVk4B6yIm_ukAtKLZLvPPoPNfxSUSdWU3pns4AnOMsYcOytAf_B14YUpwvSuhtyDryLKp3MJ185IU4oQ/s320/Peggys%20trial%20our%20copy.JPG" width="223" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">10). Frances Hodges White, Aunt Nabby’s Children.</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB2U-ybfC3awPgz3OAwY_tJ3teFw6EkVofNKmMfzrpLdhvwtm5IMPDVNvZ-MDzn-gYXwr4qb7vWTu5JgfrYfoiiVLJYtj25aibYJmOFP70r3nLJ1N1f1rcLHhxhg-Lo6m-Cyw16KhpE1dhQrhMkRAX5W1x4iatlRW0dJHwNpu5ZaWHk6qRwZudDElwMQ/s445/Aunt%20Nabby's%20children.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="339" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB2U-ybfC3awPgz3OAwY_tJ3teFw6EkVofNKmMfzrpLdhvwtm5IMPDVNvZ-MDzn-gYXwr4qb7vWTu5JgfrYfoiiVLJYtj25aibYJmOFP70r3nLJ1N1f1rcLHhxhg-Lo6m-Cyw16KhpE1dhQrhMkRAX5W1x4iatlRW0dJHwNpu5ZaWHk6qRwZudDElwMQ/s320/Aunt%20Nabby's%20children.JPG" width="244" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">[4]. Volume 29, 4</span><sup style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> quarter, 1901, p. 397. Note that the copyright entry describes the book as a 12mo as opposed to the publisher's description of the series as a large 16mo, the difference being that the Library of Congress described the book according to a standard size for a duodecimo, 7 3/8 x 5 inches (19 x 13 cm) rather than by format.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">[5]. Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975. Sound View Press, 1999, p. 2928. askART,
Albert Schmitt, Biography from The Boston Art Club, viewed March 24, 2022.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">[6]. askART. "Albert Schmitt."</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">[7]. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Albert_Felix_Schmitt_Exhibition/1xwoAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Albert+Felix+Schmitt+exhibition&printsec=frontcover" target="_blank">The Albert Felix Schmitt exhibition</a> : held at the galleries of the Boston Art
Club, January 12 to February 3, 1921. </span><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Albert_Felix_Schmitt_Exhibition/1xwoAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Albert+Felix+Schmitt+exhibition&printsec=frontcover"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">https://www.google.com/books/edition/Albert_Felix_Schmitt_Exhibition/1xwoAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Albert+Felix+Schmitt+exhibition&printsec=frontcover</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">[8]. <span style="text-align: justify;">There are entries in Who's Who in American Art, v. 4, 1940-1947, for both a painter, Albert Felix Schmidt, living at 556 West 156th Street, New York City; and an illustrator, Felix Schmidt, at 232 East 40th Street, New York City. While the former is almost certainly our "Schmitt", no further information is given about either.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">[9]. Woman’s Who’s Who of America. Edited by John William Leonard. New York:
American Comonwealth Co., 1914- Vol. 1914/15, page 694-695.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">[10]. Forced Acquaintances was reprinted: New York: R.F. Fenno & Co., [1902?] as
no. 18 of the Summer Series, and New York: H.M. Caldwell Company, [1907?] in
the series Famous Books for Girls, new edition, 1907, no. 18.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">[11]. The first book in the Little Puritan Series, A Loyal Little Maid, was copyright 1896 by Joseph Knight Company, and a digital version
of the Library of Congress copy has a title page with Joseph Knight as
publisher and a date of 1897; this title page also has a copyright stamp dated
August 31, 1896. In 1897 The Joseph Knight Company became L.C. Page & Company when the brothers L.C. and G.A. Page, both employees of the Joseph Knight Company, took over the business. </span></div><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjff6MLGOFm9FnfH2mtGa_li98P31L9UgcUHgv__QEW765iHu3Jlg6maUmWGUnMT9R0STqTA2GEoQ0BhV-82Wd89n4vV3d0j3xxtpWJQeop2zBF--C96_N1SwKOr2XR00rMNTVqsrP7LIy-11LLyfEBNK_tQT1voR5I0d1GcwwAcGQCvJJCbmtBJeH-yw" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="239" data-original-width="320" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjff6MLGOFm9FnfH2mtGa_li98P31L9UgcUHgv__QEW765iHu3Jlg6maUmWGUnMT9R0STqTA2GEoQ0BhV-82Wd89n4vV3d0j3xxtpWJQeop2zBF--C96_N1SwKOr2XR00rMNTVqsrP7LIy-11LLyfEBNK_tQT1voR5I0d1GcwwAcGQCvJJCbmtBJeH-yw" width="320" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrWe7sPt5W07N2x_lzRK2b-S7eHjgj7ptEEDiUGiiHTCmTx_6dcKC7SeFedh9_yxx6Ll4xULq3HLi9e2PKTyDMmstLTSD6lp7qFyAbXIvPVAvWwinQ2yjkeWJtYGP38ImmDUZApV_yrH-kImxFPzrPDEv8Me3XXAEdrtefPe7uVtrCeCraiCN4GgcsiQ/s683/Loyallittlemaid%20title%20page%201897%20Knight%20Library%20Congress.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="434" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrWe7sPt5W07N2x_lzRK2b-S7eHjgj7ptEEDiUGiiHTCmTx_6dcKC7SeFedh9_yxx6Ll4xULq3HLi9e2PKTyDMmstLTSD6lp7qFyAbXIvPVAvWwinQ2yjkeWJtYGP38ImmDUZApV_yrH-kImxFPzrPDEv8Me3XXAEdrtefPe7uVtrCeCraiCN4GgcsiQ/w203-h320/Loyallittlemaid%20title%20page%201897%20Knight%20Library%20Congress.jpg" width="203" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">Our copy with L.C. Page
& Company on the title page is dated 1897 with an 1896 copyright on the
title page verso. Although there is an
OCLC record that indicates that a version exists with the title page dated
1896, I have not seen either a printed or digitized version with 1896 rather
than 1897 on the title page. It should be noted that the Library of Congress
catalog record, from which the OCLC record purports to be transcribed, gives
the date as 1897 in LC’s online catalog.</span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">[12]. Gullans, Charles
and John Espey, Margaret Armstrong and American Trade Bindings, UCLA, 1991, p.
28.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">[13]. The "Crab" turns out to be quicksand.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div></div></div>Paul Hesslinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04183069108251653271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998199202092941550.post-91074998682742553882021-12-23T19:15:00.002-05:002022-01-03T13:46:17.760-05:00Twelve bindings of Christmas<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Happy Holidays! </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">This Christmas we'd like to offer you a selection of 12 seasonal bindings from the University of North Carolina Greensboro's American Trade Bindings Collection. But before presenting them, we'd like to give a nod to our last holiday for Thanksgiving fans. It's hard to believe that it was a month ago, and it's harder to believe that we're wrapping up 2021 in a week and a half! But if you're lost in Thanksgiving nostalgia, we hope this helps. Though we don't know who designed the binding, it's a turkey in the best sense.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3eH4d5ArSjve9qhqhh16p9qXfUtgpdxH2Z86LCw0hn_mRV5f3_gaOYKK_A2ryIER7JpcBQIas9UJxMKQw4KFz3V3Q3GSzsUasRwASYvNm-rMq7su9oQCoul3cjRIa_TpYkv1Iyad3xeMp_UYaE8AOcDfKxRbRPjxL9I6fFeqz2thr2hwID8Sa0fLJ-w=s707" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="707" data-original-width="619" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3eH4d5ArSjve9qhqhh16p9qXfUtgpdxH2Z86LCw0hn_mRV5f3_gaOYKK_A2ryIER7JpcBQIas9UJxMKQw4KFz3V3Q3GSzsUasRwASYvNm-rMq7su9oQCoul3cjRIa_TpYkv1Iyad3xeMp_UYaE8AOcDfKxRbRPjxL9I6fFeqz2thr2hwID8Sa0fLJ-w=w350-h400" width="350" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dickinson,
Asa Don, ed. The children’s book of Thanksgiving stories. Garden City:
Doubleday, Page, 1915.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Now on to our 12 bindings for Christmas.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">1. Our first selection is an attractive little children's book, with printed paper over flexible boards and a color paper onlay reproducing a portion of an illustration by Gladys Hall for the lines:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And filled all the stockings ..." </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: left;">Despite the title, this book is not "all about" anything, but rather is a version of the Clement Clarke Moore poem.</span></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvlB_QxvLFd-c0vEaHzgKJKot0wxFTg4y7R1hUTS8jwupBI8lc-BOWJbHWEIIRWJLMHn0ygZSKNI-bXrD_fHQPRiIgdIddSv5jvvgwQn3fctjortIsJaUhsc-61DMRIUQV1z-u5pROW5f-BqOeRNrlVrZKL_927IrQ6GpKzt9DMYGUVaBD2u_4TgXNMw=s718" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="718" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvlB_QxvLFd-c0vEaHzgKJKot0wxFTg4y7R1hUTS8jwupBI8lc-BOWJbHWEIIRWJLMHn0ygZSKNI-bXrD_fHQPRiIgdIddSv5jvvgwQn3fctjortIsJaUhsc-61DMRIUQV1z-u5pROW5f-BqOeRNrlVrZKL_927IrQ6GpKzt9DMYGUVaBD2u_4TgXNMw=w334-h400" width="334" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Clement
Clarke Moore. All about the Night before Christmas. New York: <span class="rb-edit-text">Cupples & Leon, 1918. </span> </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">We're fortunate to also have the dust jacket for this book, which, as was common, reproduces the cover design as well as providing the publisher advertising space. Here you can see the 14 titles "of a high character" that you might want to purchase along with other titles issued by Cupples & Leon.</span> </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0Glm7VgGtlCmieE07b1qtf280rBEmrL1AM6tGOic635ijr4cC_tG4j4rptBn1QPHvFaeaXE6juuFPfEv3Z9nNt6_6mgP7WQpgcz4os0z06E7_jj7oUhS8XOqvw1A48_ZT9oVUo7QWepyx4buKa0wMjlHV4jgNDORVCJA7qlPly9RsDTyI5mIC713W5A=s953" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="602" data-original-width="953" height="405" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0Glm7VgGtlCmieE07b1qtf280rBEmrL1AM6tGOic635ijr4cC_tG4j4rptBn1QPHvFaeaXE6juuFPfEv3Z9nNt6_6mgP7WQpgcz4os0z06E7_jj7oUhS8XOqvw1A48_ZT9oVUo7QWepyx4buKa0wMjlHV4jgNDORVCJA7qlPly9RsDTyI5mIC713W5A=w640-h405" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">2. Our second binding of Christmas features a cover design and illustrations by Amy M. Sacker. If you're interested in her work you've no doubt visited our former colleague, Mark Schumacher's <a href="http://www.amysacker.net/" target="_blank">Amy Sacker Site</a>.</span></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhnIl0uq9_trfrpaRzsGnaRunZDpl7YEjOHc_pnnciGVOiT1PSk99yLTTBgCz7oG9Cm4dwCEgO2s2h8PEMJMNsuMKOydlbNZMFkLFZ-Dp1cgGxQRyjFQiDqOJkaRDJHIsyOpMAP24ro2iwKIcl8ylHXJkkFRLHaOkmog-1I0cqmWLv_6aC_pFwexMFbdg=s785" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="785" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhnIl0uq9_trfrpaRzsGnaRunZDpl7YEjOHc_pnnciGVOiT1PSk99yLTTBgCz7oG9Cm4dwCEgO2s2h8PEMJMNsuMKOydlbNZMFkLFZ-Dp1cgGxQRyjFQiDqOJkaRDJHIsyOpMAP24ro2iwKIcl8ylHXJkkFRLHaOkmog-1I0cqmWLv_6aC_pFwexMFbdg=w306-h400" width="306" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Edith
Robinson. A little puritan’s first Christmas<span class="rb-edit-text">. Boston: L.C. Page & Co., 1910, c1900.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">This book was first published by L.C. Page in 1900. Our copy is the sixth impression, Sept. 1910, in dust jacket. Although unsigned, Mark notes that the design is almost certainly Sacker's work, and the people and lettering bear strong resemblances to other Sacker designs. Once again, the dust jacket front panel and spine reproduce the cover design and the back cover and flaps (not shown) include publisher advertisements.</span><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLKcMM977OORoQcYZxhtpYee0osU1s07euTR8SU911D_AcHnoHrpxyBJmsrxgdeikwFRrFDitsFhXPRWgEtqvEIbQFwlyCikg65SN2tFY5nkyo5tAizajMPawsCN69OGXA8ahi9-1dmxfMVRbyOal7TLevBakG6nTahATStqYfJRl3JNnFWce0PHdUQQ=s1152" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="785" data-original-width="1152" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLKcMM977OORoQcYZxhtpYee0osU1s07euTR8SU911D_AcHnoHrpxyBJmsrxgdeikwFRrFDitsFhXPRWgEtqvEIbQFwlyCikg65SN2tFY5nkyo5tAizajMPawsCN69OGXA8ahi9-1dmxfMVRbyOal7TLevBakG6nTahATStqYfJRl3JNnFWce0PHdUQQ=w400-h272" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">This book is unusual in that Sacker also provided the illustrations. Mark's site also provides a <a href="http://www.amysacker.net/documents/checklistillus.html">checklist and scans of Sacker's work as illustrator</a>, from which the two images are taken.</span></div><div><br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjy_jb_lQ8FHvwU1kwOnSv_YFcDSHUjJ5RSR3V2a06zKKSLHF9gfuU7-XISX4Z9urvIkJi15OUQtJ05ctTx2IBRcr9dhVSmuswouj1mWr0SDD4i0D7pLbifGM2hh8_U0fFwttzuUyCppRMDrqif-A3YfL_zIKSjlp4A7XGgrMXQ49nhgVfsfY4NZpjOhw=s441" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="307" data-original-width="441" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjy_jb_lQ8FHvwU1kwOnSv_YFcDSHUjJ5RSR3V2a06zKKSLHF9gfuU7-XISX4Z9urvIkJi15OUQtJ05ctTx2IBRcr9dhVSmuswouj1mWr0SDD4i0D7pLbifGM2hh8_U0fFwttzuUyCppRMDrqif-A3YfL_zIKSjlp4A7XGgrMXQ49nhgVfsfY4NZpjOhw=w320-h222" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgq3EqNujAQoev74qtIVbnpQuaE8fAuOkSZTRo6AC6Jnw-gcL79dzcCVHsSg10tmSGtKt8jHW9KG5IhFlgxCzFdcJ30CV__jXzIQq94IXLnzCtm0zI8GyNqKHe9vyEnsf0R-WpYneYkmz6iFaM9ZWLv5SstOImQl7NEyC-i2iF4k_TD9nOtvGaHW2sKiw=s422" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgq3EqNujAQoev74qtIVbnpQuaE8fAuOkSZTRo6AC6Jnw-gcL79dzcCVHsSg10tmSGtKt8jHW9KG5IhFlgxCzFdcJ30CV__jXzIQq94IXLnzCtm0zI8GyNqKHe9vyEnsf0R-WpYneYkmz6iFaM9ZWLv5SstOImQl7NEyC-i2iF4k_TD9nOtvGaHW2sKiw=s422" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="255" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgq3EqNujAQoev74qtIVbnpQuaE8fAuOkSZTRo6AC6Jnw-gcL79dzcCVHsSg10tmSGtKt8jHW9KG5IhFlgxCzFdcJ30CV__jXzIQq94IXLnzCtm0zI8GyNqKHe9vyEnsf0R-WpYneYkmz6iFaM9ZWLv5SstOImQl7NEyC-i2iF4k_TD9nOtvGaHW2sKiw=w194-h320" width="194" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">3. Our third binding of Christmas is a Margaret Armstrong design for one of the three unsigned bindings out of five Henry Van Dyke titles not part of her famous dark blue Van Dyke series. Our copy features gloss and matte gilt on olive green silk cloth.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhT_8zH47K_CYQ7TSeJEqQT-eiewOdFFxtk_UNoTxwEgaoZalUHPw5OENW5t1tpoiPmnKai0DZXePQTagS-dtf9XWv4cYfnhPtVLhmupk0zt2h3HfCY42_64nJn-dmf7THaRXht2MVzOtUX4L4UIPjHrTgt_cked6laqu0ZtilQKg04oYQbE_CBmKEk0A=s800" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="546" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhT_8zH47K_CYQ7TSeJEqQT-eiewOdFFxtk_UNoTxwEgaoZalUHPw5OENW5t1tpoiPmnKai0DZXePQTagS-dtf9XWv4cYfnhPtVLhmupk0zt2h3HfCY42_64nJn-dmf7THaRXht2MVzOtUX4L4UIPjHrTgt_cked6laqu0ZtilQKg04oYQbE_CBmKEk0A=w273-h400" width="273" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="rb-edit-text"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Henry
Van Dyke. </span></span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
spirit of Christmas. New York: <span class="rb-edit-text">Charles Scribner's
Sons, 1905.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Charles Gullens and John Espey note in their checklist of Margaret Armstrong covers that this design also appears in two other states: gold on cream paper, and white on purple paper with a cream cloth spine, and are probably alternate bindings for a Christmas gift book.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">4. The fourth binding for Christmas travels back another 50 years to 1848, and features gilt cherubs and a floral wreath with blindstamped ornaments on front and rear covers.</span></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgXhUtuerrEWOzEwq07UqbTX0q2HDDBojUNqlXSPrqpwRhBZcr1lpxIQUNLc1ydEvvGK85fg0QXlmt7Y_bHaQQJxYXNT3UXeWPJ7V9YGe9_vmJe4XyFsPET3FBIOg6xy0RUSoq3m0oCne_xMmxHEQBSbiBXI1uw7stGFfQ0uuwW8EURfPRkxnKr7HGLQ=s768" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgXhUtuerrEWOzEwq07UqbTX0q2HDDBojUNqlXSPrqpwRhBZcr1lpxIQUNLc1ydEvvGK85fg0QXlmt7Y_bHaQQJxYXNT3UXeWPJ7V9YGe9_vmJe4XyFsPET3FBIOg6xy0RUSoq3m0oCne_xMmxHEQBSbiBXI1uw7stGFfQ0uuwW8EURfPRkxnKr7HGLQ=w313-h400" width="313" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Catherine
Grace Frances Gore. The snow storm: <span class="rb-edit-text">a Christmas story.
Boston: Charles H. Peirce, 1848.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">It is bound in a common cloth grain, very fine diagonal rib, as can be seen in this enlargement. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4hjEdemh7wTdSE27mnXZ0LzBsfGVOBPhUSHResD7xXmKtXwCbKLp8zh_3KEEX4cIHHRtjq9AN-4_GPvISeRPTbBIKVDjra8vfbdCGiWlhO3mr-I5Tky370hkhoWAqls8X3FSgS3P9WPr7u4udB-SmANZ1p7grwVs9B69KqmgUyjqjnlra7Z1Epg98mg=s603" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="359" data-original-width="603" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4hjEdemh7wTdSE27mnXZ0LzBsfGVOBPhUSHResD7xXmKtXwCbKLp8zh_3KEEX4cIHHRtjq9AN-4_GPvISeRPTbBIKVDjra8vfbdCGiWlhO3mr-I5Tky370hkhoWAqls8X3FSgS3P9WPr7u4udB-SmANZ1p7grwVs9B69KqmgUyjqjnlra7Z1Epg98mg=w400-h239" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">What is far less common is the use of striped cloth, which was in vogue </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">for a few years</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> in the mid 19th century. All of our few bindings with this feature were published between 1847 and 1850.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">5. Our fifth binding for Christmas has an unsigned cover design which ticks off all the features one could wish for in a Christmas gift book: red cloth lettered in gilt, a background pattern of pine trees, snowy mountains under a bright blue sky, and to top it all off a border of holly leaves. Add a popular author and several illustrations by Frederick Remington to the pot and it looks like a sure winner. Publishers' Weekly listed the book as published October 22nd (plenty of time to pick up a copy for the holidays) and, in an advertisement in the November 5th PW for "Harper's new gift books," the publisher notes that "Owen Wister has written nothing about the West more delightful, humorous and pathetic by turns than this Christmas tale." </span></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimjvhTVwsi2i6xMy22DF-ccwTNK1kATiTv-3ruwD2B9GCIjyFadMUWKQXHpqtm-1xqL8T0fRBEqPHEoSuIuoypvKEd8iMioQNIhh4uedAfaHsksFYVPgxHp23JF3RQQ7bCN1zztIdE72Ttru7D2TXPclbILwDvSrjz7cCP9Em_jMH5tRMg91BM70N1Dw=s782" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="782" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimjvhTVwsi2i6xMy22DF-ccwTNK1kATiTv-3ruwD2B9GCIjyFadMUWKQXHpqtm-1xqL8T0fRBEqPHEoSuIuoypvKEd8iMioQNIhh4uedAfaHsksFYVPgxHp23JF3RQQ7bCN1zztIdE72Ttru7D2TXPclbILwDvSrjz7cCP9Em_jMH5tRMg91BM70N1Dw=w308-h400" width="308" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="rb-edit-text"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Owen
Wister. </span></span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A
journey in search of Christmas. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1904.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The book also includes very attractive pictorial endpapers, and each page has border illustrations, all of which are unattributed. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIDYycMxCT4BbgPt2sxfhAH8CXX_2sYmquFcFjL5rzHkMzjVJvcH9PTkrB0UE6qJJaW15KvmInSv-5Q4FNxsRTPIMMIL_zCSEub0fWq3xASD0resdOddQSxEXPt5erkco6MI_njqBR-Jn4BHSKt1uiuAFRHybWdI32kA4og6zaBnpv66DVnfmD3eCoxg=s4400" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3400" data-original-width="4400" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIDYycMxCT4BbgPt2sxfhAH8CXX_2sYmquFcFjL5rzHkMzjVJvcH9PTkrB0UE6qJJaW15KvmInSv-5Q4FNxsRTPIMMIL_zCSEub0fWq3xASD0resdOddQSxEXPt5erkco6MI_njqBR-Jn4BHSKt1uiuAFRHybWdI32kA4og6zaBnpv66DVnfmD3eCoxg=w400-h309" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">6. The sixth binding for Christmas is another Christmas gift book. The Publishers' Weekly for November 9, 1907 includes an advertisement for "Macmillan books for holiday gifts" and lists F. Marion Crawford's book The Little City of Hope as ready Nov. 20.</span> </div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgC1b9Tec98_HDyJSdCLTvg5nT9vwtIXcN9l8zgMJQd_6cvtYAhQZyWg2Al0COAvsE4MwDFzzsQX-TLm3m94RCdJrl3SuzFaE_aSkyRZd2ZTBoTOBe1xzd6vuguqmKt1zilXLmt19l3APjWLcmGXVb9SosqBrAbffz66w6F1gbPuaYn_hEUXen3mSN_7w=s744" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgC1b9Tec98_HDyJSdCLTvg5nT9vwtIXcN9l8zgMJQd_6cvtYAhQZyWg2Al0COAvsE4MwDFzzsQX-TLm3m94RCdJrl3SuzFaE_aSkyRZd2ZTBoTOBe1xzd6vuguqmKt1zilXLmt19l3APjWLcmGXVb9SosqBrAbffz66w6F1gbPuaYn_hEUXen3mSN_7w=w323-h400" width="323" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="rb-edit-text"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">F.
Marion Crawford. </span></span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
little city of hope: a Christmas story. New York: Macmillan, 1907</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">The striking cover, with a cityscape above and a mass of brilliant green and red holly leaves and berries in a large central panel, is alluded to in the PW description: this "New Christmas story ... is distinctly seasonal, not merely in its decorative dress, its printing in two colors and its illustrations [by Wladyslaw Theodore Benda], but in the deeper spirit of the story itself."</span><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">7. The seventh binding for Christmas also features holly as a motif in its design, but to a much different effect. </span></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFtiiHI8bGnMJl3kUv_bZup62SzDDSeVrZGNul7bX7xspu2mvrYSLvlyvqBNbiZ8qvb7RV080vAHehvnMphK8ietAZiNG7QvUSJHh-qOIlml483VEWCEv1GD8ZZP5rcUujTI190ZML7npPQLLR_kspTczr3dcF7H9rS6YLrk2Rx6PLn717AKA-aS0idQ=s800" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="577" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFtiiHI8bGnMJl3kUv_bZup62SzDDSeVrZGNul7bX7xspu2mvrYSLvlyvqBNbiZ8qvb7RV080vAHehvnMphK8ietAZiNG7QvUSJHh-qOIlml483VEWCEv1GD8ZZP5rcUujTI190ZML7npPQLLR_kspTczr3dcF7H9rS6YLrk2Rx6PLn717AKA-aS0idQ=w462-h640" width="462" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="rb-edit-text"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Theodore
Ledyard Cuyler. </span></span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Our
Christmas tides. New York: <span class="rb-edit-text">Baker & Taylor Co.,
1904.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Once again, this title was issued as a holiday book, but rather than a novel it is a non-fiction book by a minister, Dr. Theodore Ledyard Cuyler, discussing the history and meaning of the day throughout the world and in the author's own life. The unidentified cover artist has created a design in gilt and dark red and green resembling stained glass (which numerous artists, including Sarah Whitman and Margaret Armstrong, also worked in). The dark holly, gothic lettering, stylized red and gilt cross at the center, and the candles topped with rayed stars all contribute to the effect. The pictorial endpapers make an interesting contrast with the cover and are signed Geo. W. Hood. George Washington Hood (1869-1949) was an illustrator and painter who also designed bindings, including one of my favorites, the fanciful The Helter Skelters (1)</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiV2FdWEFgGjgHIO9Y9ZZOXJeY4h8uKyNl_6kJlseGaaUrQ0KBLA2_I9onTRBdAFMivMlrrcoyFakoR-z96-_E4FM8JXcHy491faQXe0L3RpsCd1e0vld3iT-nMzCDUgfOiNSgMn07mdSmaRSZu2n59YkTJukxAPUBIT3_LukPtNxsiXzvCvCAmRdF3PA=s4400" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3400" data-original-width="4400" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiV2FdWEFgGjgHIO9Y9ZZOXJeY4h8uKyNl_6kJlseGaaUrQ0KBLA2_I9onTRBdAFMivMlrrcoyFakoR-z96-_E4FM8JXcHy491faQXe0L3RpsCd1e0vld3iT-nMzCDUgfOiNSgMn07mdSmaRSZu2n59YkTJukxAPUBIT3_LukPtNxsiXzvCvCAmRdF3PA=w400-h309" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">8. Our eighth binding is quintessential Christmas featuring not only holly but gilt bells and a green and white mistletoe background on a fine diagonal rib cloth. The binding is also signed with the designer's monogram, which we had identified as that of Florence Pearl England Nosworthy. But when I rechecked our copy I was taken aback and wondered if we had misidentified the monogram which should be an overlapping F and P. Instead what we seemed to have was an F and perhaps a stylized E.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgtWHw7UY01pHQ-jw8qrICzWJZgTBdLRI6TCGctO0LesYa1bPhf1uEVg0H7Cm4aacyd5Wri3a4DfqOSo1LhtXDMKykbu8P6BU5tyKejmTEGCpUGZ6N03AiqGSZd9MT-EhM2BTRQStRabbw4xMVYixodVXRTHtY4ZuZB8Ao8fdGOwvdI_sSTdEofHieO1A=s760" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="760" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgtWHw7UY01pHQ-jw8qrICzWJZgTBdLRI6TCGctO0LesYa1bPhf1uEVg0H7Cm4aacyd5Wri3a4DfqOSo1LhtXDMKykbu8P6BU5tyKejmTEGCpUGZ6N03AiqGSZd9MT-EhM2BTRQStRabbw4xMVYixodVXRTHtY4ZuZB8Ao8fdGOwvdI_sSTdEofHieO1A=w506-h640" width="506" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="rb-edit-text"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sylvestre,
Joshua [i.e. John Camden Hotten]. </span></span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Christmas
carols, ancient and modern. New York: A. Wessels, 1902.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Fortunately, I went back to the scan and by zooming in on the monogram found that there was what seems to be a raised portion of the cloth where the missing part of the bowl of the P should be, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">which reassured me that our attribution was correct.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> A scan of the copy held by the University of Wisconsin-Madison clearly showed how the monogram should appear. Whether the monogram was improperly stamped or a portion of the monogram had flaked off at some time is a puzzle I can't answer, although the latter seems most likely considering the age of the book and the damage at the foot of the shared F/P stem.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhH4tSvyd2tdf3gnf-_tFnt-jBHAlscNAzL0q-DT6R8Ky0lNqxzI0sehYv_f7IgoqwAmt-G3Nz_dXEyQnKWbWyjJlCBunzj8JuE1YM2Gx938mo1uZlHk9tlzxmNyAQsmCkF7PxqF7o30myAvURuIJclH28zUgdolO4GxdWSFjWeK3rbGkfFnX08dpYL-g=s362" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="358" data-original-width="362" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhH4tSvyd2tdf3gnf-_tFnt-jBHAlscNAzL0q-DT6R8Ky0lNqxzI0sehYv_f7IgoqwAmt-G3Nz_dXEyQnKWbWyjJlCBunzj8JuE1YM2Gx938mo1uZlHk9tlzxmNyAQsmCkF7PxqF7o30myAvURuIJclH28zUgdolO4GxdWSFjWeK3rbGkfFnX08dpYL-g=w200-h198" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">UNCG copy</td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCO8ctP1sPC-RiI0etELeWvK8flEcBHLDtnoHVQ1KcQWn7b8D3x_5Ci_48DmzXGBBULEvA1xKfPzJv25KWOh-skdMMCRueum9SVD_mgHPL0Ja7SPwfk_irVBRLsZp7tjBIA_LqCQJz23EqYAz_VNrf1IW5C7a8AozRNh7Mr39Pn6fjcN4BhHKLad5hFg=s249" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="249" data-original-width="175" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCO8ctP1sPC-RiI0etELeWvK8flEcBHLDtnoHVQ1KcQWn7b8D3x_5Ci_48DmzXGBBULEvA1xKfPzJv25KWOh-skdMMCRueum9SVD_mgHPL0Ja7SPwfk_irVBRLsZp7tjBIA_LqCQJz23EqYAz_VNrf1IW5C7a8AozRNh7Mr39Pn6fjcN4BhHKLad5hFg" width="175" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">U Wisc Madison copy</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjXlfwC_j8G6kHpJ7zFC04kW4inlMvlPV-6LuteU0E3hK-H9awBYIL3jUHPQKD4-EmcvbcUpuxygQXII1G2vIpoy9_FX_XKunpzUZwR5dRItufizn5TpW5bRRdEEQ05vp52Y_Wogh1OBCbw-dqbBYd6o94Bv4TG5Zc4um6jFHNSAtTbiDc-QGWCKYi3aA=s283" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="283" data-original-width="209" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjXlfwC_j8G6kHpJ7zFC04kW4inlMvlPV-6LuteU0E3hK-H9awBYIL3jUHPQKD4-EmcvbcUpuxygQXII1G2vIpoy9_FX_XKunpzUZwR5dRItufizn5TpW5bRRdEEQ05vp52Y_Wogh1OBCbw-dqbBYd6o94Bv4TG5Zc4um6jFHNSAtTbiDc-QGWCKYi3aA" width="209" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wessels reissued this title in 1905 with a new cover design by Theodore Brown Hapgood.(2)</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">9. The ninth binding for Christmas is a fine design by Amy Richards for William Locke's A Christmas Mystery: the Story of Three Wise Men. Her conjoined monogram can be seen on the left below "Christmas.'</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9IsTpYsce132Z_MzovXyXoFPV1dEYhgodU6_0zmwP56QNdUabZ_uY0KFrftgDC9zMa4YgIOjHZXh-jI_NHFAJ6_7u_b5opoEGH6HHwwdnFTVHHssrZYzfGr2q2ww438qfGVEbNCVSLxdbz_zBgBMKitv8wA98GFFZLiE3NWNnE2ojUQ7NKj7bCT50hQ=s800" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="578" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9IsTpYsce132Z_MzovXyXoFPV1dEYhgodU6_0zmwP56QNdUabZ_uY0KFrftgDC9zMa4YgIOjHZXh-jI_NHFAJ6_7u_b5opoEGH6HHwwdnFTVHHssrZYzfGr2q2ww438qfGVEbNCVSLxdbz_zBgBMKitv8wA98GFFZLiE3NWNnE2ojUQ7NKj7bCT50hQ=w289-h400" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="rb-edit-text"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">William
J. Locke. </span></span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A
Christmas mystery: <span class="rb-edit-text">the story of three wise men. New
York: John Lane, 1910. </span><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Publishers' weekly (Oct. 22, 1910, p. 1636) describes the book as “…
a real Christmas tale, which tells how three learned men, all crusty and averse
to the Christmas spirit … find themselves forced to give help to a poor woman
and a new-born baby, discover that they really have hearts, and are grateful
for the discovery.” </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgA81wtzJxmy_YMF07ZkaIzvCtVhLxM_0dWrsaRgtVPAehDbHSdPNMcP7HhhwR7k6teg9PsgO97EJh89k3o-JGYqlEA03sYRkdFg1_PTtKeku9QI7WfrxtMYBs7Opi5_MExjkc8MOW_xeIQVmQNY62E70hjB2lSBcU3bx8HXo7M1UJmTPy6_2rBao7Ltg=s650" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="395" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgA81wtzJxmy_YMF07ZkaIzvCtVhLxM_0dWrsaRgtVPAehDbHSdPNMcP7HhhwR7k6teg9PsgO97EJh89k3o-JGYqlEA03sYRkdFg1_PTtKeku9QI7WfrxtMYBs7Opi5_MExjkc8MOW_xeIQVmQNY62E70hjB2lSBcU3bx8HXo7M1UJmTPy6_2rBao7Ltg=s320" width="194" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Frontispiece illustration of the three crusty gentlemen</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">In a John Lane advertisement from the same issue, "A State Commissioner
of Education,” whose Christmas gift seems to have been overstatement, describes it as “[t]he most powerful Christmas
story yet written. Deserves a place beside the ‘Christmas Carol’ by Dickens and
‘The Story of the Other Wise Man’ by [Henry] Van Dyke.”</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">There is a bit of a Christmas mystery about the cover of this book, as it was issued with two designs. The publication information on both is identical, but the second seems to be for a less elegant presentation, perhaps a reprinting. </span></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFRViutNcycyD95Js7JqR3uRBT4Tgmh0YwdcEbmETxIj6mGm0ljHx5C5CW1dGy4z4Ksni4FbAZDFamzz5-8ckf9DimJUOr4yyfAXyE4HsuIL61-td00mqX0Bz_v_u5GB_2CYPrfNC1IjKclcfUmcF5WCpN3cjvQTexjpLFPxW1lzG-s531eg1hr2grEw=s563" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="563" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFRViutNcycyD95Js7JqR3uRBT4Tgmh0YwdcEbmETxIj6mGm0ljHx5C5CW1dGy4z4Ksni4FbAZDFamzz5-8ckf9DimJUOr4yyfAXyE4HsuIL61-td00mqX0Bz_v_u5GB_2CYPrfNC1IjKclcfUmcF5WCpN3cjvQTexjpLFPxW1lzG-s531eg1hr2grEw=w320-h267" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illustration from page 54</td></tr></tbody></table></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgE59vxFF_k22Bsat8Z6fsoHBg1cWE6_80rADziTpAH1ACmlQMQp4Ea3vwQFYg1CcP2YnSz0_lxmrr77zUHSRpzysBt2e5kJPPL4epJJMMcZZvFVy_SatPPfsWULewxlzLQy_tY7ZLnmt_ERqRnISzxAD83u71LWplK30xOQoprrFu0dN7NLOFJiifkDQ=s685" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="370" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgE59vxFF_k22Bsat8Z6fsoHBg1cWE6_80rADziTpAH1ACmlQMQp4Ea3vwQFYg1CcP2YnSz0_lxmrr77zUHSRpzysBt2e5kJPPL4epJJMMcZZvFVy_SatPPfsWULewxlzLQy_tY7ZLnmt_ERqRnISzxAD83u71LWplK30xOQoprrFu0dN7NLOFJiifkDQ=s320" width="173" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="rb-edit-text" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14.6667px;">New York: John Lane, 1910. From internet archive. </span><br style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;" /></td></tr></tbody></table><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">From an advertisement in Publishers' Weekly for Nov. 26, 1910, we learn that the Amy Richards version was issued as a special gift book edition, and indicates it was the first version released to the public:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgl3Ml6cztBJZEqY0VhGyZtwxnmmCqKvX9s9Hog6qxsLcEeQ-mh1Lb07YqKkI_JKzaiJ9Ki0XYPkRtdZj4iWaxFTBYF5OoVhoA6S2YMrUASAV2D9vHtwfpCT_2p77fDchs1waEEUcYLSD-X0oW2daTRFyUJypEk0Ai2G0co-8Oialta57neeXISYd8MnQ=s815" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="415" data-original-width="815" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgl3Ml6cztBJZEqY0VhGyZtwxnmmCqKvX9s9Hog6qxsLcEeQ-mh1Lb07YqKkI_JKzaiJ9Ki0XYPkRtdZj4iWaxFTBYF5OoVhoA6S2YMrUASAV2D9vHtwfpCT_2p77fDchs1waEEUcYLSD-X0oW2daTRFyUJypEk0Ai2G0co-8Oialta57neeXISYd8MnQ=w640-h326" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div>Gullans and Espey note that they have recorded around 85 designs by Amy Richards, and, other than her monogram and design work, we know only that she </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">was active from 1896 to 1918 (3).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">10. The tenth binding has another Amy Sacker design, this one a paper onlay on decorated cloth.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhB-YieNzWs59QPomIlWcKgAwHwXbPije98qbM2hm85MrQAMebHWkK4vCg8-LlvV7YJXIvSbb_wK1TQRMRy47e6N3fhwkdbosK4JRy6LoWqMRwOAR8Zu6GVkZXGWQfj8cf2WEdGsYlb0INEZ2sgmy21zFcHk9pL38hmzvkEI91eTqkOojAISMMc685a8Q=s749" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="749" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhB-YieNzWs59QPomIlWcKgAwHwXbPije98qbM2hm85MrQAMebHWkK4vCg8-LlvV7YJXIvSbb_wK1TQRMRy47e6N3fhwkdbosK4JRy6LoWqMRwOAR8Zu6GVkZXGWQfj8cf2WEdGsYlb0INEZ2sgmy21zFcHk9pL38hmzvkEI91eTqkOojAISMMc685a8Q=w320-h400" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="rb-edit-text"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Frances
Bent Dillingham. </span></span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A
Christmas tree scholar: <span class="rb-edit-text">and other stories. New York:
Thomas Y. Crowell, 1900.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">It is uncertain whether Sacker's contribution to this cover extends to the decorative frame and spine, which might be a series design. Mark Schumacher gives this presentation as a variant to a <a href="http://www.amysacker.net/documents/ChristmasTreeScholar.htm">quarter cloth version</a> with the Sacker illustration on both the front and rear covers:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEigo-bobJfSQTGWAKexzICrhnEhAZIGycPSkt4AicRq6QB3AZARgLsccMx1OLzLrk2C_45Bjh48HuwAh3RcRD9tx9ZiIlFSkXvdEMr5k3-1C2WouripTQJBz7JfnkVtvc5idAgy1apKWUZIv_hLAa8n--KFzpj5YaNf69ig1dI6S3riUKk_ytLG61cw5Q=s694" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="459" data-original-width="694" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEigo-bobJfSQTGWAKexzICrhnEhAZIGycPSkt4AicRq6QB3AZARgLsccMx1OLzLrk2C_45Bjh48HuwAh3RcRD9tx9ZiIlFSkXvdEMr5k3-1C2WouripTQJBz7JfnkVtvc5idAgy1apKWUZIv_hLAa8n--KFzpj5YaNf69ig1dI6S3riUKk_ytLG61cw5Q=w640-h424" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scan from Amy Sacker Site by Mark Schumacher</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">An intriguing side-note on the glossy paper used on the cover: although the binding cloth is a calico texture, the paper appears to have an unexpected sand grain that can be seen in this closeup of Sacker's monogram. Another Christmas mystery? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEichETjfs0myj8gxHgLqxYgsqu5XBJ9Ll0W00sr2jUylCGxMUWBWlbXh51bz0v2dqQ2k_o5HIkQvT8vFi6v56MjVAjEppp8V5-IMi0qLRUQMfZJ7h74sLNtmhDuBS7M9b7gFvxqDhnPTCvNU0lI0xyNixz_9HjGufFl4RqR8tQQwOsYZlyXO9J57yt9Vg=s372" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="372" data-original-width="350" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEichETjfs0myj8gxHgLqxYgsqu5XBJ9Ll0W00sr2jUylCGxMUWBWlbXh51bz0v2dqQ2k_o5HIkQvT8vFi6v56MjVAjEppp8V5-IMi0qLRUQMfZJ7h74sLNtmhDuBS7M9b7gFvxqDhnPTCvNU0lI0xyNixz_9HjGufFl4RqR8tQQwOsYZlyXO9J57yt9Vg=s320" width="301" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">11. The eleventh binding for Christmas is a pleasing signed design from the Decorative Designers, in dust jacket. The gloss and matte gold, gold tipped candlesticks, tiny Christmas tree perched on the top banner on the front cover and spine, and background of dark green and red holly leaves and berries on a dark yellowish-green open weave cloth make this a favorite.</span></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhG2t3i6_HCSFFl70NGOIVhrsVSrhMLlYNkYHKUZoy3H_zH-EPu831ewHifxFX8cYB0TohJwbgINs-je6jGkKrdQeFpynu9W-9SXR-9QMmdtYpQ_7P_z04LTa9hjff-H0w_RGW1ORAV5t0q0zhn1pmwQGQm7TjxJBaF8k4VHrWVRE4_jhedoSFEiH3UsQ=s697" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="697" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhG2t3i6_HCSFFl70NGOIVhrsVSrhMLlYNkYHKUZoy3H_zH-EPu831ewHifxFX8cYB0TohJwbgINs-je6jGkKrdQeFpynu9W-9SXR-9QMmdtYpQ_7P_z04LTa9hjff-H0w_RGW1ORAV5t0q0zhn1pmwQGQm7TjxJBaF8k4VHrWVRE4_jhedoSFEiH3UsQ=w550-h640" width="550" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Elva
S. Smith and Alice I. Hazeltine. Christmas in legend and story: <span class="rb-edit-text">a book for boys and girls. Boston: Lothrop, Lee &
Shepard Co., 1915</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUqMqJbCpWd4yv57VZdjuttiphoxZLQMe_YUP_emYmyQi8ejvzKh8MJFXlS5uuK0CnrNo6ZkccFnio0QbsD_vKUmtsSPK6Slsue2L_Z8b17a1nMEUl0JyHldop_42qBcB3C5VNb1zT7m4rj9dJKH2kKAyNxyRbt-JekSKt28lrm8s8RvtyjxSRZhLetg=s5600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3400" data-original-width="5600" height="389" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUqMqJbCpWd4yv57VZdjuttiphoxZLQMe_YUP_emYmyQi8ejvzKh8MJFXlS5uuK0CnrNo6ZkccFnio0QbsD_vKUmtsSPK6Slsue2L_Z8b17a1nMEUl0JyHldop_42qBcB3C5VNb1zT7m4rj9dJKH2kKAyNxyRbt-JekSKt28lrm8s8RvtyjxSRZhLetg=w640-h389" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">As befits a Christmas gift title, the book also has a decorated title page, which, though unsigned, may also be the work of the Decorative Designers.<br /></span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-iy2urLsCs38S4SU1X-gNRbaX-4qgW6jIXTHssx7tmQW8ELgXWHju2XsbK3vNQbRsUw4hHuYy3kFpS_KJ46OoHQbtqcE1t8piDFpv--7NZsXrxVzDbiTLmJi1pswknMUN0S0NvgQPwc7a-bH6QaENsmt6w-ZA-p4ax6SMSoXWublzTfHGEAjjJaz8Cw=s993" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="993" data-original-width="656" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-iy2urLsCs38S4SU1X-gNRbaX-4qgW6jIXTHssx7tmQW8ELgXWHju2XsbK3vNQbRsUw4hHuYy3kFpS_KJ46OoHQbtqcE1t8piDFpv--7NZsXrxVzDbiTLmJi1pswknMUN0S0NvgQPwc7a-bH6QaENsmt6w-ZA-p4ax6SMSoXWublzTfHGEAjjJaz8Cw=s320" width="211" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>12. Our twelfth and final binding for Christmas-- Christmas stories by Aunt Laura, aka Aunt Fanny.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNqLoQNNMpWR-Q1f5hcYLTZLc_n4d4I24gKtWogdYSdZdIVJKLAwopREpdZXsfVp0q9rUsKeUnN0hd2euSTT-71_zMj_iwukENoVekxMpx4TGW63XB98VugLYTSye3uTTbu7BjXtO5Zqb-nhcFVeKnEv7RbxCF1gsqkAQemBYTV0bEOFwFd8M5KXMcjg=s680" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNqLoQNNMpWR-Q1f5hcYLTZLc_n4d4I24gKtWogdYSdZdIVJKLAwopREpdZXsfVp0q9rUsKeUnN0hd2euSTT-71_zMj_iwukENoVekxMpx4TGW63XB98VugLYTSye3uTTbu7BjXtO5Zqb-nhcFVeKnEv7RbxCF1gsqkAQemBYTV0bEOFwFd8M5KXMcjg=w353-h400" width="353" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="rb-edit-text"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Aunt
Fanny [i.e. Frances Elizabeth Barrow]. </span></span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Christmas stories. Buffalo, N.Y.: <span class="rb-edit-text">Breed, Butler & Co., 1862.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><span>When I first looked at our scan of this title, what immediately struck me was what seemed to be a very large hexagon grain cloth. I wondered why this was used, as it caused difficulties with the lettering, leaves and other parts of the gilt stamping; but then I realized that it wasn't that the hexagons were overly large, it was that the book was overly small-- 2 1/8 inches (5.4 cm) to be exact! Hexagon grained cloth was one of a number of grains that were popular in the middle of the 19th century, although they fell out of favor later in a similar manner to ribbon-embossed cloth and striped cloth earlier in the century. Andrea Krupp found 17 examples between 1852 and 1865 (4), and in our own collection we have 3 examples, all from 1862 or 1863.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioJiiT3LYnfvedWJur511NZq8M8mZQdy6hNnBbedMU7-NCIHM_TwxAyYOV39Mwlu_l_qlLwkoh1wecSQYMmPWTudIJYDmGqx33sm6P0PzSslFDY6hywYjgKLoAsxIHCETpxzqO6Y4Ypy-GOm2TymlFOv4BxhRyQsOOUUX8bVCq0l2fMYQwbuN7kHvgyA=s4400" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4400" data-original-width="3400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioJiiT3LYnfvedWJur511NZq8M8mZQdy6hNnBbedMU7-NCIHM_TwxAyYOV39Mwlu_l_qlLwkoh1wecSQYMmPWTudIJYDmGqx33sm6P0PzSslFDY6hywYjgKLoAsxIHCETpxzqO6Y4Ypy-GOm2TymlFOv4BxhRyQsOOUUX8bVCq0l2fMYQwbuN7kHvgyA=w247-h320" width="247" /></a></div></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimKENbnlmZPICQ6nmhM04xCFDo6OrVQgxuPenpRIpvU1THb0vO7isvK6yoBr__Fp6p3gSPFzOOu-92NRnzPc4bIfzvGPf8KAZglSvvAFu8RfVYtngHvdUENi0gemlH04O1-xLRl9C2JERi177ojdxXJBoU09UiAXfAVjVWMIwRo1wxYJxY3WwfJIyOsQ=s592" style="clear: right; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="592" data-original-width="460" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimKENbnlmZPICQ6nmhM04xCFDo6OrVQgxuPenpRIpvU1THb0vO7isvK6yoBr__Fp6p3gSPFzOOu-92NRnzPc4bIfzvGPf8KAZglSvvAFu8RfVYtngHvdUENi0gemlH04O1-xLRl9C2JERi177ojdxXJBoU09UiAXfAVjVWMIwRo1wxYJxY3WwfJIyOsQ=w250-h320" width="250" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Rear cover with design in blind; without title</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>This miniature children's book by "Aunt Laura", (a pseudonym of Frances Elizabeth (Mease) Barrow, 1822-1894) includes two stories, The old man of the mountain, and Christmas merry-making.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>With its eye-catching cover and gilt edges, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">perfect for tiny hands, then and now this book would make an excellent stocking stuffer. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">And now with our tale of twelve bindings complete, we will end this post and this year.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Happy holidays from your friends Paul and Callie at American Trade Bindings and Beyond.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Wishing you a safe and joyous Christmas and a much improved New Year!</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">(And, of course, a turkey in a pear tree ...)</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgz3OZzkeQ2eyd9n3AflNUSiCvW3Xxz0dBLl-02G2s0zi5LIkRqOtbjxJWNqqfw1yjtB6KCuF7cHZ07j8PRK74FhLLwFgy2ENE6H-jJ4OE3fDhzK_UJ8pHBd_61Kzy-QVM5vhLonUxaWeH4UfYjicUXsB5LgLnh1Ke43xuDCLlBwgDezhMyjqnB7YPJ3g=s357" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="357" data-original-width="274" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgz3OZzkeQ2eyd9n3AflNUSiCvW3Xxz0dBLl-02G2s0zi5LIkRqOtbjxJWNqqfw1yjtB6KCuF7cHZ07j8PRK74FhLLwFgy2ENE6H-jJ4OE3fDhzK_UJ8pHBd_61Kzy-QVM5vhLonUxaWeH4UfYjicUXsB5LgLnh1Ke43xuDCLlBwgDezhMyjqnB7YPJ3g=w154-h200" width="154" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">If you haven't visited recently, we've moved our digital collections to a new platform--Islandora. Please take a look <a href="https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/highlights:ATB" target="_blank">here</a> and let us know what you think.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">*****************************************************</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(1) <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiC5V1eUBBQgTRuLGptin5xSnm1K6gvdFBBAIsLfwxwvRQ6TPi_8YLxpkURYj_yrPPlpKz7p1PW7YploTgcB0rn5D7-rwPcaRQowDFtgmOi_0ZPh09LYahFbX47hRMv056VZdffy8nZMII2rV3pg0Jio3zdX3fNjkMAJ8K8yyE7XrJWmeWnfZeSusM_tQ=s836" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="836" data-original-width="715" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiC5V1eUBBQgTRuLGptin5xSnm1K6gvdFBBAIsLfwxwvRQ6TPi_8YLxpkURYj_yrPPlpKz7p1PW7YploTgcB0rn5D7-rwPcaRQowDFtgmOi_0ZPh09LYahFbX47hRMv056VZdffy8nZMII2rV3pg0Jio3zdX3fNjkMAJ8K8yyE7XrJWmeWnfZeSusM_tQ=s320" width="274" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">(2)</span></span></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4xGEfQrOY7i-g7oDkwEVAnQBAQpuGqTD60S4FCz9Fvh_Vf8YSjiqae64Ms58A-ldDzQmfBTNZ4M9n_KZr7cvclserqmJf-qQnzU7bOc9Lk3OVOtPAMUICPzWwTJyE7eEHbQdpV-DuDGC548pddNn2X0grWevZiZdWfcKB9Arh5h-m_yJdvG8m9LU_yA=s537" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="537" data-original-width="385" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4xGEfQrOY7i-g7oDkwEVAnQBAQpuGqTD60S4FCz9Fvh_Vf8YSjiqae64Ms58A-ldDzQmfBTNZ4M9n_KZr7cvclserqmJf-qQnzU7bOc9Lk3OVOtPAMUICPzWwTJyE7eEHbQdpV-DuDGC548pddNn2X0grWevZiZdWfcKB9Arh5h-m_yJdvG8m9LU_yA=w286-h400" width="286" /></a></div><br /><div>(3) Charles Gullans and John Espey. "American trade bindings and their designers, 1880-1915." </div><div>In Jean Peters, ed. Collectible books, some new paths. New York: Bowker, 1979, p. 58.</div><div><br /></div><div>(4) Andrea Krupp. Bookcloth in England and America, 1823-50. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2008.</div>Paul Hesslinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04183069108251653271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998199202092941550.post-73067765805391888452021-11-18T08:47:00.004-05:002021-11-18T09:37:35.127-05:00Stitt Publishing Company<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">1905 was a year of possibilities in the literary world. Upton
Sinclair's <i>The Jungle</i> came out in serial form, O.
Henry's <i>The gift of the Magi</i> was published for the first time,
and both Edith Wharton's <i>The House of Mirth </i>and<i> </i>Frances
Hodgson Burnett's <i>A little princess</i> were published in book
form. In this same year, publishing companies were forming after several big
name companies started to merge to sustain themselves, such as the Lothrop
Publishing Company and Lee & Shepard merger into the Lothrop, Lee and
Shepard Company. The Stitt Publishing Company came into existence in 1905 and,
unfortunately, only lasted this single year (or did they? More on that later).</span></span><br />
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I first encountered Stitt Publishing Company when I was cataloging Abroad with the Jimmies by Lilian Bell for the American Trade Binding Collection. We already had the <a href="http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/tb1/id/1565/rec/1">1902 publication</a> by <span style="line-height: 107%;">L.C. Page & Company digitized (with a cover design by Amy Sacker), but
since this copy was a variant binding, was published later, and also had
a different publisher and binding designer, we decided to add it to the digital
collection as well. It's a beautiful little book with a cover design by the
Decorative Designers.</span><br /></span>
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Three power houses in the publishing world, William M. Stitt, Jr., Joseph Scammel, and W. L. Mershon came together to form Stitt Publishing Company in 1905. William M. Stitt, Jr. headed up the New York office, Joseph Scammel headed up the Chicago office, and W.L. Mershon made the company the "exclusive selling agents for the Mershon Company".<sup>1</sup><br />
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Prior to joining forces, each man was well established in the publishing world. Scammel had done work for Brentano's before this and was already stationed in Chicago.<sup>1</sup> He knew the town and he knew his competitors and allies which made him a good business partner in that part of the country.<br />
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publishing industry. He rubbed elbows with the Frederick Stokes Company,
Saalfield and Fitch, as well as the Mershon Company (bet you couldn't have
guessed that last one)</span>.<sup>1</sup></span><br />
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P<span style="font-family: times;">ublishers Weekly gave rave reviews of the up and coming company stating in 1905, "Starting with a large line of desirable books their success seems a foregone conclusion."<sup>1 </sup></span><span style="font-family: times;">The
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Soon the company started experiencing problems. In the February 10, 1906 issue of Publishers Weekly, there was one small paragraph on page 672 beginning, "W.M. Stitt, Jr., has sold his interest in and resigned his position as president and general manager of the Stitt Publishing Company, which is to be wound up and go out of existence as a corporation."<sup>2</sup> Just 8 months later the Mershon Company sold their company to Chatterton-Peck Company, effectively ending that portion of the company as well.<sup>3</sup> In the March 7, 1908 issue of Publishers Weekly, we learn that there was a case involving Chatterton-Peck Company, Stitt Publishing Company, The Mershon Company, W.L. Mershon, and Edward Stratemeyer. The case started in October 1907 and ended in March 1908.<sup>4</sup> It appears Edward Stratemeyer sued Mershon and Chatterton-Peck Company, probably for copyright of his books.<sup>5,6</sup><br />
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What happened in that single year to make this seeming dynamic trio dissolve their company which held so much promise? Perhaps Stitt decided he didn't want to acquire Mershon Company any longer or vice versa. What we do know is that both companies continued to publish under their respective <span style="font-family: times;">company names after the joint company dissolved in 1906 which is why you will find some Stitt and Mershon imprints after 1905.<br />
<br /><span style="line-height: 107%;">After dissolving the company, the trio went their separate ways. William
M. Stitt Jr. become the American agent for Blackie & Son, London, The Pub.
Co. of Buffalo, N.Y., and for Berger </span>Pub. Co.<sup>7</sup><br /></span>
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Joseph Scammel went on to work for Gimbel Brothers out of Philadelphia as a manager of their book department.<sup>8</sup> <span style="line-height: 107%;">In 1915 he left that firm and took a position with the mail order
corporation Charles Williams Store Co. out of Brooklyn to organize and manage a
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I'm not entirely sure what happened to W.L. Mershon. Mershon senior passed away in 1907 and the son (who was the W.L. Mershon represented in this partnership) passed away in 1943.<sup>10</sup><br />
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1. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -22px;">The Stitt Publishing Company. (1905). </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -22px;">Publishers weekly,</i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -22px;"> </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -22px;">67</i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -22px;">(4), 114. Retrieved January 25, 2018, from <a href="https://digitalarchives.publishersweekly.com/">https://digitalarchives.publishersweekly.com/</a>.</span><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #333333; text-indent: -22px;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 107%;">Estimate of Stitt’s publishing output in 1905 based on count of OCLC records.</span><br /></span>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -22px;">2. Business notes. (1906). <i>Publishers weekly, 69</i>(6), 672. Retrieved March 5, 2018, from </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -22px;"><a href="https://digitalarchives.publishersweekly.com/">https://digitalarchives.publishersweekly.com/</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -22px;">3. Business notes. (1906). <i>Publishers weekly, 70</i>(15), 1048. Retrieved March 5, 2018, from </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -22px;"><a href="https://digitalarchives.publishersweekly.com/">https://digitalarchives.publishersweekly.com/</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -22px;">4. Chatterton = Peck Company. (1908). <i>Publishers weekly, 73</i>(10), 1102. Retrieved March 5, 2018, </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -22px;">from </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -22px;"><a href="https://digitalarchives.publishersweekly.com/">https://digitalarchives.publishersweekly.com/</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -22px;">5. Foley, M., Iurevich, L., Moske, J. (2000). Stratemeyer Syndicate Records, 1832-1984. <i>The New York Public Library. Humanities and Social Sciences Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</i> Retreived March 5, 2018, from <a href="https://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/archivalcollections/pdf/stratemeyer.pdf">https://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/archivalcollections/pdf/stratemeyer.pdf</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -22px;">6. Dizer, J.T., Jr. (1997). <i>Tom Swift, The Bobbsey Twins and other heroes of American juvenile literature. </i>Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press.</span>
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7. Business changes. (1907). <i>The bookseller, newsdealer, and stationer, 26</i>(7), 291. Retrieved April 7, 2020, from <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101065561241&view=2up&seq=292&size=125">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101065561241&view=2up&seq=292&size=125</a><br />
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8. Personal notes. (1915). <i>Publishers Weekly, 87</i>(13), 972. Retrieved April 7, 2020, from <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -22px;"><a href="https://digitalarchives.publishersweekly.com/">https://digitalarchives.publishersweekly.com/</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -22px;">9. </span>Personal notes. (1915). <i>Publishers Weekly, 87</i>(15), 1129. Retrieved April 7, 2020, from <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -22px;"><a href="https://digitalarchives.publishersweekly.com/">https://digitalarchives.publishersweekly.com/</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -22px;">10. William Livingston Mershon . (n.d.). Retrieved April 7, 2020, from <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92583545/william-livingston-mershon">https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92583545/william-livingston-mershon</a></span><br />
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Calliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08643951145996676435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998199202092941550.post-55743658165663051492020-04-07T16:16:00.000-04:002020-05-04T12:03:55.679-04:00Remembering F. Hopkinson SmithF. Hopkinson Smith was a talented person who wore a lot of hats in his life. Not only was he an author and illustrator, but he was also a renowned engineer.<br />
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Francis Hopkinson Smith was born in Baltimore, Maryland on October 23, 1838 to Francis Hopkinson Smith Sr. and Susan Teackle. He left home at the age of 16 and found a job at a hardware store as a shipping clerk. One day he took a leap of faith and ventured up to New York. It took him a while to find a job, but he eventually secured a position at a iron firm thanks to family connections. He eventually got brave and started his own business, with his first major project being the ice-breaker surrounding the Bridgeport Lighthouse, which appeared in his book "Caleb West" and was his proudest accomplishment. He did several more jobs in the years following, but probably his most famous job was to build the foundation for the Statue of Liberty.<br />
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He married Josephine Van De Venter and had two children, Francis Berkeley Smith (who, as an author, binding designer and illustrator, was just as well known as his father if you are in the binding world), and Marion Smith.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mrs. Josephine V. Smith from her 1921 <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L965-N45J?i=177&cc=2185145">passport application</a> and <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">F. Berkeley Smith from an ad in Publishers Weekly</span></td></tr>
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It wasn't until Francis was 45 years old that he started to become serious about writing. His first book, "Old Lines in New Black and White" was published in 1885, but it wasn't until the publication of "Colonel Carter of Cartersville" in 1891 that he became famous. He wrote 29 books and was in the process of writing his 30th when he passed away on April 7, 1915. His son, F. Berkeley Smith, who, as stated earlier, was equally well known as an artist, binding designer, and author, completed the 30th volume titled Enoch Crane, which was published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1916.<br />
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Francis seemingly had a heart of gold and tried to always see the good in people, which was reflected in his writing. In an interview with the New York Times in 1905, he was quoted as saying "I believe that there is something fine, some spark of good, in the lowest human being, and I want to bring out that sort of thing." He also believed in using real life situations and people in his novels and based characters on people he knew in real life. A Mrs. Mary Morgan was the inspiration for Tom Grogan; Richard Horn and Mrs. Horn were based on his mother and father; and his most famous character, Colonel Carter, was based on several people, including his father, his uncle, and one or two others.<br />
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He was also a lover of pets, especially dogs. He was quoted in the same New York Times interview as saying, "When you've said that a man is 'a good human dog,' I should like to know what greater compliment you can give him." It's a shame being called a dog in these times doesn't carry quite the compliment it might have in the past.<br />
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In honor of the anniversary of the passing of this fascinating man, here are a handful of his works we have in our trade bindings collection.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/tb1/id/1465/rec/2">Published by Houghton, Mifflin and Co. in 1892</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/tb1/id/1988/rec/6">Variant binding published by Houghton, Mifflin and Co. in 1892</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/tb1/id/1469/rec/4">Published by Houghton, Mifflin, and Co. in 1889. Binding by Sarah Whitman</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/tb1/id/4755/rec/1">Published by Houghton, Mifflin and Co. in 1899. Binding by Sarah Whitman</a></td></tr>
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1. "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949," database, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WHK-L71 : 10 February 2018), Francis Hopkinson Smith, 07 Apr 1915; citing Death, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, New York Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,322,372.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hello again from Paul and Callie, your friends at American Trade Bindings and Beyond! The beginning of spring, and this first day of this new month of April, seemed like a good time to re-introduce the blog after a long hiatus. During these uncertain and tumultuous times, when so many of us are working from home, it might be soothing to simply enjoy some bindings. With this in mind, we offer here a selection of designs on nautical themes for your pleasure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let’s begin with a delightfully surreal design of a ship inexplicably anchored in a treetop, by George Washington Hood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Hidden treasures and lost children are always fascinating subjects for childhood. In “The Helter-Skelters” we have both, as well as a dear, lovable little lame girl, an old sailor man, a sea captain and a merry crowd of girls and boys known as “The Scowling Scots,” who are really the “Helter-Skelters”—most lovable and lively.” </span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Deep indeed! So, a children’s story ... but what about that ship in a tree?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Consider very carefully—though that gently curving coast may seem peaceful, the waves are rough and there are cliffs inland which must be climbed. It's a long trek before you’ll encounter any inhabited land, though you’ll find sufficient food and water on the journey. Why take that route when the others remain with me on the Petrel?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Daulton, George. The Helter skelters. New York: Frederick Stokes, 1909. Signed GWH, George Washington Hood.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hains, T. Jenkins. The cruise of the Petrel. New York: A. Wessels Co., 1906. Signed FP, Florence Pearl England Nosworthy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Davenport, Charlotte C. Shepherd. A round-the-word jingle. Boston: Thomas Todd Company, Printers, 1918. Unsigned, unidentified.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Frothingham, Jessie Peabody. Sea-wolves of seven shores. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1904. Signed DD, Decorative Designers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Page, Thomas Nelson. Elsket. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891. Unsigned, by Margaret Armstrong.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Stockton, Frank R. John Gayther’s garden and the stories told therein. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1902. Signed EWC, Evelyn W. Clark.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Parrish, Randall. The last voyage of the Donna Isabel. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1908. Signed GM, Guernsey Moore.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Masefield, John. Salt-water poems and ballads. New York: Macmillan, 1916. Signed GH, possibly George Washington Hood.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Humphrey, L. H. The poetic old-world. New York: Henry Holt, 1909. Signed BS, Bertha Stuart.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Smith, Francis Hopkinson. The tides of Barnegat. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1906. Signed BS, Frank Berkeley Smith.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Crosby, Irving B. Boston through the ages. Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1928. Signed TBH, Theodore Brown Hapgood.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Walworth, Ellen H. An old world as seen through young eyes, or, Travels around the world. New York: D. & J. Sadlier & Company, 1877. Unsigned, unidentified.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Eggleston, George Cary. The last of the flatboats. Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1900. Signed M within circle (unidentified)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Baring-Gould, S. Winefred. Boston: L.C. Page & Co., 1900. Signed with Amy M. Sacker’s monogram.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wheelright, John T. A bad penny. Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1901. Signed AB, Alfred Brennan.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Richards, Laura E. Love and rocks. Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1898. Unsigned, by Amy M. Sacker.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. Loveliness. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1899. Picture by Sarah S. Stilwell, lettering possibly by or after Sarah Whitman.</span><br />
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Anyway, we have an update thanks to the sleuthing of Linda Obora! I was sitting at my desk in November of 2018 when a manila envelope was handed to me. Intrigued, I immediately opened it and pulled out the enclosed papers and letter. The letter was from Linda Obora, a genealogy researcher, and she had traced information about Marion and found her death date. Not only did she provide this information, but also was able to send us a copy of her death certificate and (drum roll, please) her WILL! How awesome is that? Thank you so much, Linda! </div>
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Luckily, her research helped answer some of the unknowns from the previous post. We had found a tombstone that looked very much like it was Marion's, but we couldn't find that one missing link that definitively said that this was indeed "our" Marion. These documents linked everything together. So without delay, I want to share with you what Linda found. </div>
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Marion Louise Peabody died January 9, 1937 at 6:15 pm in her home at Via Mario del Fiori, 16, Rome, Italy. </div>
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She died from cancer of the liver which was certified by her physician, Dr. Giulio Brocchieri. She was cremated and then buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Testaccio, Rome (the resting place of John Keats, Percy Shelley). The death certificate even spells out the exact plot in the cemetery where she was buried<br />
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Diletta dal signore</div>
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le sia premio</div>
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la vita eterna</div>
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Her brother in law, Lionel Simeon Marks (husband of Josephine Peabody, the famous author), was notified of her death by a telegraph sent to Harvard University, where he was employed, on January 9, 1937 and January 10, 1937. Josephine had died in 1922, so it's telling that her brother-in-law was the one notified. Marion's passport was destroyed on January 11, 1937, a scant two days after she passed. J. Wesley Jones, the vice consul of the United States of America, signed off on her death certificate which was officially filed February 5, 1937. Her effects were left in the care of a Mr. Luigi Trombetti, the executor of the will. </div>
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But now I was curious about Mr. Luigi Trombetti. Who was he--a friend? Simply her lawyer? My attention turned to the translated three page copy of the will that Linda included with the death certificate and letter. You can glean so much information from a will. You find out who was most important or closest to the deceased--well, important enough to warrant leaving them something at any rate. You can peer into their personal lives a little more and find out what things were dear enough to them to want the items to go to someone instead of just being disposed of.<br />
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Remember, Marion never married and was a self-sufficient woman who was living in Italy in 1937. Why is that important? Italy was living under the rule of Benito Mussolini. The Rome-Berlin Axis was established in 1936, but Italy had been living under a fascist government long before that. What was that like for her? </div>
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Marion made her will on December 31, 1936, which, as the document points out, is the 15th year of the Fascist Era, at her home on the second floor of number 16, Via Mario del Fiori. Five people, in addition to Marion, were present to serve as witnesses while the will was created:</div>
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The will identifies Marion as "Miss Marion Louise Peabody, daughter of the late Carlo". We learned in the first blog post that she was, in fact, the daughter of Charles (thus Carlo) K. Peabody who died in 1884 when Marion was 15. The will states that she's "ill in bed", so we know the cancer was debilitating at this point, and that Marion died just over a week later. </div>
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The will starts with her niece Alison Peabody Marks, daughter of her sister Josephine Peabody Marks and Lionel Marks. Marion left her several rings (which were thoroughly described), a heart studded with diamonds, silver spoons, and a color picture of Josephine. </div>
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Lionel Peabody Marks, her nephew, was left four decanters with a stand which belonged to her great, great grandmother </div>
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Miss <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Ohlfsen-Bagge">Dora Ohlfsen</a> received two furs and 5000 lire. Say what?! Dora Ohlfsen-Bagge was a fascinating character who was a pianist, sculptor, painter, medallist, and had a brief stint (that we know of) as a <i><b>spy.</b></i> A spy, y'all! She and her lifelong companion met an untimely death in 1948 when they were found in their gas filled studio. Police ruled it accidental deaths, but some suspect it was a suicide pact.</div>
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Baroness <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne_de_Kuegelgen">Hélène de Kuegelgen</a>, the companion of Dora Ohlfsen-Bagge and the individual who died with her, was left 5000 lire. </div>
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Marion left Countess Frances du Besse two writing desks.</div>
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Mrs. Lia Trombetti Lardel received a table from the drawing room and an ornate piece of furniture from the hallway.</div>
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The Reverend of the American church in Rome, Samuel Tyler, was left Marion's copies of books written by her sister, Josephine. </div>
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Mr. Alfredo Cifani was left a writing desk, his choice of chest of drawers or writing desk, and a bureau with the American coat of arms on it. </div>
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Marion remembered her maids in her will as well. To Firmina Ferrari, "Irma" she left all of the kitchen contents including the furniture and utensils, all the contents of the entrance hall, the wardrobe in her bedroom, half of the table service, and half of her clothes and underclothes, though she did specify that Irma couldn't have the silk underclothes. She additionally left her 800 lire. To her other maid, Elvira Ruggieri, she left the other half of her clothes and underclothes (specifying again to not touch the silk) and 800 lire. </div>
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Then, finally, we discover a little bit more about Mr. Luigi Trombetti. Marion left twenty-five lire apiece to Maria Letizia and Maria Immacoleta Trombetti, daughters of Avvocato Luigi Trombetti. So he definitely was a lawyer, but Marion goes on to give hints to their relationship later on in the paragraph saying, "as a token of gratitude for the brotherly and disinterested assistance their father has given me during the last seven years and of the esteem and friendship which I have felt and always shall feel for him." So in answer to my earlier questions, we now know he was both a lawyer and a friend. </div>
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Marion was truly an interesting and fascinating character. She kept company with countesses, baronesses, painters, sculptures, lawyers, and most interestingly to me, a spy. We know her best here at Jackson Library as an accomplished binding designer and didn't want to end this post without a look at some of her work. </div>
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Thanks again to Linda Obera, who did the leg work which offered us a glimpse into Marion Peabody's personal life. I love the fact that we can connect with people we otherwise wouldn't have through this blog. </div>
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Appropriately, we'll end this post with a binding she created for her beloved sister, Josephine Preston Peabody's, book The <a href="http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/tb1/id/3413/rec/1">Wayfarerers</a>. Published by Copeland and Day, 1898.<br />
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enjoyment. I must note that these images
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first is a stocking stuffer, fit to mingle with the knick-knacks, unshelled
nuts, candies, fruits and, of course, the chocolate covered marshmallow Santas. You’ll need a jumbo stocking for this one,
however, as it is 610 pages and comes in a whopping 10 ½ x 8 x 1 ½ inch case.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Truman, Ben. C.
History of the World's Fair, being a complete and authentic description
of the Columbian Exposition from its inception. With special articles by Geo.
R. Davis, Thos. W. Palmer, Mrs. Potter Palmer, Moses P. Handy, D.H. Burnham,
John Thorpe, Thomas B. Bryan, and numerous other people prominently connected
with the Exposition. Profusely illustrated with engravings made from
photographs and drawings of exhibits in the various departments. Johnsons, N.Y.: Star Publishing Co., 1893.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Holloway, Laura C. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The hearthstone; or, Life at home. A household
manual. Containing hints and helps for home making; home furnishing;
decorations; amusements; health directions; the sick-room; the nursery; the
library; the laundry; etc. Together with a complete cookery book.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Beloit, Wis.: The Inter-State Publishing
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reveal it until after the 25<sup>th</sup>.
Since we’re on holiday for the rest of the month, however, you’ll have
to wait until 2018. But the revelation will
certainly make the delay worthwhile as the new year promises a strange journey to premature smacking, bibles, offensive teeth, dummies, mysterious places of
publication, theosophy, wandering agents, mysterious publishers, surprising uses for beef tea, and, of
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Paul Hesslinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04183069108251653271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998199202092941550.post-55834281266302540992017-07-07T15:39:00.000-04:002017-07-07T16:24:33.670-04:00Margaret Armstrong's Great Series; Cloth Color part 2<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"More or less by chance, Margaret found herself doing book covers. In those days nobody thought of dust jackets except as a means of keeping off the dust; as soon as you bought a book you took the paper jacket off. She started a vogue for making the book covers themselves artistic and distinctive, and her covers became a sort of identity tag for an author. Whenever I see the dark blue and gold design on the spine of some book on a library shelf I have recognized it as Henry van Dyke’s even before Margaret’s distinctive lettering tells me so. The remarkable thing is that almost all the hundreds and hundreds that she designed are original in conception and excellent in taste. In most cases she could follow her own wishes, but occasionally was called upon to match her style to that of the author, which might be terrible. Thus the saccharin mauve cover which she devised for the first Myrtle Reed novel was so exactly right that she had to perpetuate it with variations through all the rest of that immensely popular and long-forgotten author’s string of works."(1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Anyone at all familiar with American binding design of this period knows these two series and has probably seen most of them. I would guess that many people that frequent used book stores (whether physical or virtual) that stock books of this period have also seen one or more titles from these series. There are good reasons why these books are at least relatively common over a century after they were written, even though both authors, like so many others of a century ago, are regrettably (or mercifully) virtually forgotten today. Both Myrtle Reed (1874-1911) and Henry V</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">an Dyke (1852-1933) were prolific. <span style="line-height: 107%;">Although Reed’s first book was published in 1898, only 13 years before her untimely death, 27 books were published in her lifetime in addition to a number of posthumous volumes. She also wrote innumerable short pieces of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, including columns in newspapers, under a variety of pseudonyms. </span>Over his long life Van Dyke authored over 70 books and a vast</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> number of periodical contributions of poetry, essays, and short stories. Both were extremely popular, with Reed’s titles regularly exceeding, sometimes greatly, 100,000 copies sold. And, of course, they also had the good fortune to have publishers who commissioned a series of bindings by Margaret Armstrong for their books. So a vast number of copies were produced (in the case of Myrtle Reed well over a million), and the books are very attractive, therefore more likely to be kept than perhaps more worthy but less eye-catching works. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The careful observer has no doubt noticed that fourteen bindings are shown, not the twelve mentioned by Gullans, and there are indeed fourteen entries in his checklist. The reason for this is that two of the bindings have repeat designs with small variations. Later Love Letters of a Musician repeats the design of Love Letters… but with the addition of “Later”, of course. Gullans notes that the lettering for “Later” is not Armstrong’s; it does look a little different and the placement is certainly awkward with the word squished in between “Love” and the bottom of the ornamental frame. He also notes that the cloth color on the two “musician” titles is a pale gray, with The Spinster Book being the first to be issued in lavender cloth. The other title which Gullans lists but is not part of “the twelve” is Love Affairs of Literary Men (1907). In this case the cover design is almost the same as Lavender and Old Lace but with a different center panel, which thus merits an entry in the checklist but is not counted as a different design.(5)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Portion of backstrip from the gray cloth binding of Love Letters of a Musician on left (Sept. 1901, 9th printing) on left and from a lavender cloth binding issue (from Oct. 1912) on right. The ornament on gray cloth matches that used on the Later Love Letters, but the ornament on the right is different and represents a later backstrip design. As a point of interest, note the contrast in brightness between the gold embossed design on the cover (below) and the ornaments and lettering on the spine in the full binding picture. The dullness of the spine ornaments is due to the use of “Dutch metal” (also called “Dutch gold”) rather than gold on the spine. Dutch metal is a copper and zinc alloy which is much cheaper than gold but tarnishes more or less rapidly depending on the environment, type of material on which it’s used, and the type of foil used.(6)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A contemporary critical essay on American bookbinding was published in 1900 as part of a special number of the Studio, an English journal, on modern bookbinding. This is an important publication in that a number of bindings are identified by designer. The author, Edward Fairbrother Strange, begins by stating that five or six years before (about 1895), “it was possible for the Americans—looking chiefly at a few delightful examples … to claim that they were well in advance of the productions of any other country.” But no longer! He goes on to state:</span></div>
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to the apathy of publishers, or to lack of skill on the part of artists, is a
question that can hardly be discussed in an essay dealing with the general
aspect of the case. But after a careful
review of the principal book-covers produced during the last few years in the
United States, I am driven to the conclusion that no progress has been made,
that the designs, when not comparatively feeble and ineffective, are imitative
of work done on this side of the Atlantic; and that the typical examples
selected for the illustration of </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: justify;">this
essay compare somewhat unfavourably with those in the reviews of similar
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But some designs apparently weren’t as bad as others—and one of those he singles out for praise is Margaret Armstrong’s first Reed design. He also makes, I think, the quite reasonable point that publishers should allow the designer’s monogram on her or his work:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Another allusive—if we may borrow the word—book-cover has been made by Margaret Armstrong for Love-letters of a Musician. It is good in colour, the rare subordination of the two lines of floral diaper giving a pleasing effect, but the head of St. Cecilia, done on an inlay of vellum in slight relief, and the border of gold which surrounds it, seem rather forced and over-wrought. This portion of the decoration would have been better if it had been carried out in colours harmonizing more with those of the ground. It is pleasant to note that this cover bears the monogram of the designer, for the importance of signed handicraft-work cannot be insisted on too strongly or too frequently. [Amen, brother Strange!!] We congratulate both the artist and her publishers on the breadth of view that permits so simple and reasonable a piece of straight dealing.(7)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If only publishers had paid attention, our lives would be less frustrating!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In their introduction to the grouping of Reed titles in their checklist, Gullans and Espey spend almost two pages on the complications in variety and priority of the bindings.(8) These fall into two categories: the ornamentation of the backstrips, and the types of binding materials and coverings (boxes and dust jackets). Even on specific titles both of these sometimes evolved over the fifteen year duration of the series, and with the popularity of the author and resultant multiple printings it’s often difficult to tell just what came when. As we hold a number of titles in later printings and I have not studied multiple copies and printings, the most I can do is to repeat their conclusions on the two topics. There was a variety of lettering and ornaments on the spines as can be seen by browsing through the images; but with the fifth title, The Master’s Violin, a “standard backstrip” was established.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The second group of “complications in variety and priority of bindings” analyzed by Gullans and Espey are not evident from the illustrations above, as all of those are in lavender or gray cloth issues. To summarize the difficulties, Putnam issued the first three titles in cloth only. The fourth, Lavender and Old Lace, was issued in cloth or full leather (in box). The next year (1903) the first and fourth were issued in four bindings, cloth, antique calf (9), red leather, and lavender silk cloth, while the second and third were issued in the first three bindings only. The following year, The Masters Violin was issued in all four bindings when first published, as were all subsequent titles in the series as they were published.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Before we move on, I must share an advertisement for this book which I found in the June 27, 1903 issue of Publisher's Weekly.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here are both the slipcase and the dust jacket for our 1911 printing of The Spinster Book. The slipcase has the three features mentioned above, while the dust jacket includes a blurb in addition to the cover design on the front, a blank spine, and advertisements on both flaps and the back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As mentioned above, we have a number of cloth color or ink color variants in the collection, including At the Sign of the Jack o' Lantern, and Later Love Letters of a Musician. We also have a copy of The Master’s Violin in the variant gray cloth and with the design in gold and purplish red (listed in Gullans). Both have the printer's gladiolus ornament mentioned by Gullans as not being Armstrong's work. I’ve also added a picture of an advertisement for the book, with a wildly different second title also listed.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To summarize Margaret Armstrong’s use of color inks on the Reed series, only white, purplish-red, pink, pale green and pale yellow were used to create the designs, along with gold or silver. Of the 12 designs, 1 used only gold, 5 used gold and white, 3 used gold (or silver) and one other color than white, 2 used gold, white and one other color, and 1 used gold, white, and two other colors. This means that to achieve her design effects, 9 of the 12 designs used only gold or gold and one other color, and of the remaining three, two were for posthumous publications, with the most complex (in terms of colors used) published only a couple of months after Reed’s death.(14) In fact, the two posthumous bindings pictured below contain her complete palette for the Reed series, including the gray cloth variants. </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At first glance all seems straightforward, with the standard backstrip ornamentation, the limited palette of gold and white, the use of predominantly curved lines on the banner, and the intricate detail of the leafy branch and the cobweb, characteristic of a number of the early series designs; but Gullans and Espey’s notes tell us that more is going on with this title. First they mention that a variant exists using both pale and dark green (so another color in the palette) stamping in addition to white and gold, I would presume for the foliage. They then describe a backstrip on the first two printings that has a similar design to that on the front cover. But the real surprise is that an illustration which appeared in the Publishers Trade List Annual of 1906 “differs considerably in detail and in the distribution of the lettering from the published design. Apparently one S.H. was hired to rework the design.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Using an illustration to make a simplified image for a cover stamp predated the artist-designer period by decades and continued through the period and beyond. It’s a perfectly serviceable cover, but is so different from other titles by Reed, even the ones on gray vertically ribbed cloth (as this is), that the effect is startling after concentrating so long on the Armstrong designs. The question that immediately comes to mind is why this cover was made. Reed was by this time an extremely successful author with four books out by 1903. The phenomenally popular Lavender and Old Lace had been published in 1902 and the lavender series had begun with The Spinster Book in 1901, so the association of lavender covers and Myrtle Reed—and Margaret Armstrong for that matter—was already established. Reed was reliably putting out at least a book each year, so why did Putnam or Armstrong, or possibly both, decide to wait two years for the next lavender series book, Master of the Vineyard, to come out? -- and to make such a (to me) strange choice for the cover design?</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I think the answer is actually quite simple: the book was not firmly in the romance genre and was therefore not seen as a candidate for the lavender series. This was actually Reed’s only historical novel, though there was certainly romance involved. The subtitle, “a romance of Fort Dearborn,” tells us that this is the story of the battle of Fort Dearborn, located in present day Chicago, fought between the Potawatomi and American troops during the War of 1812 (spoiler: the Potawatomi won, resoundingly). Mary Powell, in her biographical sketch of Reed in the Myrtle Reed Year Book, calls this one of Reed's books outside her “’heart-interest’ series.” She goes on to say that she has “excluded it from the ‘heart-interest series, not because it lacked heart-interest, but because the public itself has unconsciously excluded one of the most compellingly interesting stories of all the compelling ones this gifted woman wrote.” Perhaps the truth is that the public excluded it because the <i>publisher</i> consciously excluded it from the romances and signaled this by putting it in such a sober and uncharacteristic cover.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1). Armstrong, Hamilton Fish. Those Days. N.Y.: Harper & Row, 1963, p. 136. In addition to the information provided by Armstrong (1893-1973) on his artistic family in these reminiscences, he also gives a fascinating portrayal of life in New York at the turn of the 19<sup>th</sup> century from the perspective of a child and young man. Armstrong was a diplomat, the author of a number of books on politics, including his 1933 title Hitler’s Reich: the First Phase, and a longtime editor of the Council on Foreign Relations’ quarterly Journal, Foreign Affairs. He served as managing editor of the journal from its inception in 1922 through 1928, and became editor from 1928 to 1972, a total of fifty years. Image of Hamilton Armstrong from S9.com biographical dictionary. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2). Gullans, Charles and John Espey. <em><span style="font-style: normal;">Margaret Armstrong and American Trade Bindings: With a Checklist of her Designed Bindings and Covers. Los Angeles: UCLA, Department of Special Collections, University Research Library, 1991, pp. 27-28. <a href="https://archive.org/details/margaretarmstron00gull">Available online</a>. </span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">3). Portrait of Myrtle Reed from The Myrtle Reed Yearbook. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1911; that of Henry van Dyke, is from Tristan van Dyke, Henry van Dyke: a Biography. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">4). As is inevitable with a large number of bindings collected over time, our copies are not of uniform quality. As I and others have said on numerous occasions, the best way to get the contemporary experience of publishers’ bindings is to view a pristine copy in person. To view better images of Reed covers than are possible in this blog, I suggest visiting any of a number of sites. Some possibilities: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">--Our own <a href="http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/search/collection/tb1/searchterm/myrtle%20reed!myrtle%20reed/field/all!all/mode/all!all/conn/and!and/order/nosort/ad/asc">American Publishers Trade Bindings</a> site </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">--<a href="http://bindings.lib.ua.edu/sitesearch.html">Publishers Bindings Online</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">--A <a href="http://rarebook.com/index.php/collections/37-catalogues-lists/collections/79-margaret-armstrong-collection">Boston Book Company catalogue</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">--A <a href="http://libapps.libraries.uc.edu/exhibits/margaretarmstrong/henry-van-dyke-collection/myrtle-reed-cover-designs/">2013 University of Cincinnati exhibition</a> (9 titles):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"The man in love with himself need fear no woman as a rival."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For our next two posts, let’s talk about color. Cloth color. It’s one of the three inescapable features of trade bindings from their beginnings in 1820s England through the 1920s, and one of two that continue to this day. The other two are cloth graining, which was seldom done after the 1910s (I’d say never but there might be some holdovers), and stamping, which today is almost completely reduced to title, author and publisher lettering on the spine. Stamping on the covers is a topic which comes up in every post; cloth graining has made appearances in past posts and is will be covered in more detail in the future.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I’ll be breaking down my remarks on color into two parts: in this first I’ll be considering it in the context of designs on several individual titles and how color alone can vary the impact of a design. In a later post we’ll look at the use of cloth color in designs for “series” or “editions,” that is, series of books by individual authors with different designs on each volume, as well as series with identical designs for different titles. In both, most examples will be taken from the work of Margaret Armstrong (1867-1944) who frequently appears in this blog.(1) She is one of the best (many would say the best) cover designer of the late 19<sup>th</sup> and early 20<sup>th</sup> century, and is certainly one of the most collected, thanks to the work of Charles Gullans and John Espey. (2)</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let’s start with a probably long-overdue glance at the term “trade binding.” Trade binding is another term for edition binding, in which the bindings are identical, made by or for a publisher or distributor, are generally in hard covers, and produced using automation (3). You might encounter a number of variations of “trade binding” which appears in the title of our blog: case binding, edition binding, and wholesale trade binding. If you’d like to explore short definitions of these terms I wholeheartedly recommend Matt Roberts and Don Etherington’s Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: a Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology, which is <a href="http://cool.conservation-us.org/don//">available online</a>. For our purposes, an understanding of the term “case binding” is sufficient. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Case binding is a method of bookbinding where the case (the book covers) are made separately from the text block. The text block is then glued to the book’s cover using the endpapers to attach the two. Paperbacks are made in a similar way, except the back edges of the text block are glued to the spine of the paper covers, called “adhesive binding.” Case binding materials can be almost anything: paper, wood, leather, flexible or stiff cardboard, or cloth. Several critical factors in the rise and continued use of case binding are 1) they are made separately from the “book” (i.e. text); 2) they can be made very quickly through mechanization of the various processes involved; 3) they can be made in large quantities; 4) they are identical. All of these factors bring down the cost of book production and enable attractive products (sometimes) to be made quickly and in large numbers, critical to meeting the increasing demand for reading materials in the 19<sup>th</sup> century and after.(4) </span> <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In all three cases the choice of cloth color was not random (“we’ve got a lot of this yellowish-brown cloth on hand; let’s use some of that up”). Rather, the cloth color was a conscious choice which served several purposes. The color helps to establish a mood on each of these covers, whether it’s a feeling of cold and oppressive weather for Drifted In, the dramatic darkness of The Legatee, or the dry, open western desert on Heart’s Desire. The cloth color is also incorporated as part of the design. We can see this in the snowflakes and window details on Drifted In’s cover, The Legatee’s silhouetted branches, and the desert ground the stagecoach crosses on Heart’s Desire. The color was also used to grab a shopper’s attention, even if a bookseller shelved his wares spine out (although one suspects that many, if not most, covers were not visible as most books were issued with dust jackets). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Between side panels, each with marine ornaments of a crab at the base and cockle shells alongside the stem of an iris in full bloom, the design is strongly banded in recessive parallel lines, thick and widely spaced at the bottom, and diminishing in height and distance between them as they rise toward the top. The illusion which is created of recession and distance from the front to the back by the incoming waves of the tide is powerful and is achieved without invoking the rules of perspective; consequently the flat surface of the cover is not broken. The device is one well known from Impressionist paintings and graphic works, both in Europe and America, and is in keeping with the aesthetic that regarded the flatness of the canvas surface as inviolable.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Armstrong’s binding decoration for The Tent on the Beach … is a study in geometric progression and mathematical ratios, a blending of disparate natural forms whose curved and horizontal lines form bands that gradually change in weight from bottom to top and in color from bright gold to dark blue. Unlike most of her decorations, this essentially asymmetrical binding was designed to be viewed along a vertical rather than a horizontal line, though the balanced, nearly identical side panels may be the first element noticed. Below the title lettering wavy, widening horizontal bands of gold against a dark blue cloth ground subtly evoke the rolling tide. In the side panels, crabs and scallop shells flank the waves to complete the reference to the seashore.” (5)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“… one of her most striking and beautiful compositions. The almost hieratic pattern of symmetrically placed irises with little crabs at their roots and a stylized wave motif between them is stamped in low relief in gold on green cloth. The color combination is typical of the publications of Houghton Mifflin and Company and particularly characteristic of their favorite designer, Sarah Wyman Whitman.” (6)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whitman, who began her career as a cover designer in the early 1880s, eliminated all of this excess and replaced it with simple, elegant designs, often floral, on carefully chosen cloth. Her distinct lettering is usually rustic and calligraphic and as recognizable as Margaret Armstrong’s. A generation older than Armstrong and other prominent designers of the 1890s, she pioneered the role</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> of “artist-designer” in book cover design. </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">She was the house designer for Houghton, Mifflin for around two decades and </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">infrequently signed her work with the letters SW within a heart or flaming heart.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Don’t forget to visit our <a href="http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/tb1">American Publishers Trade Bindings digital collection</a> for cloth in all colors; and because I can’t resist, here is Irving’s Astoria (1897) in two cloth colors to close the post.</span></div>
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1) If you need to refresh your memory on Armstrong, Wikipedia has a short article on her under the title <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Neilson_Armstrong">“Margaret Neilson Armstrong.”</a><br />
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2) Gullans, Charles and John Espey. <em><span style="font-style: normal;">Margaret Armstrong and American Trade Bindings: With a Checklist of her Designed Bindings and Covers</span></em><i>.</i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> Los Angeles: UCLA, Department of Special Collections, University Research Library, 1991. <a href="https://archive.org/details/margaretarmstron00gull">Available online</a>. The cover of The Tent on the Beach is not reproduced in this checklist.</span><br />
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3) Roberts and Etherington. Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books. “Edition binding.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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4) Images from “Visitors’ Guide to Harper & Brothers’ Establishment,” in Harper & Brothers’ Descriptive List of Their Publications, with Trade-list Prices. New York: Harper, 1880. P. ix (establishment) p. xiii (the bindery) p. xiv (embossing press). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=-zQIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1&dq=Visitors%E2%80%99+Guide+to+Harper+%26+Brothers%E2%80%99+Establishment&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjI1vC_743SAhUI5yYKHc6VDRkQ6AEIGjAA#v=onepage&q=Visitors%E2%80%99%20Guide%20to%20Harper%20%26%20Brothers%E2%80%99%20Establishment&f=false">Viewed online</a>.<br />
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5) Crichton, Laurie W. Book Decoration in America, 1890-1910: a Guide to an Exhibition. Williamstown, Mass.: Chapin Library, Williams College, 1979, p. 55. </div>
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6) Finlay, Nancy. Artists of the Book in Boston, 1890-1910. Cambridge, Mass.: Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, The Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, 1985, p. 57. </div>
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8) Carter, John. Binding variants in English publishing, 1820-1900. London: Constable, 1932 (reprinted by Oak Knoll Books, 1989), p. 82. Carter also wrote the very useful, gently sarcastic, and quite funny ABC for Book Collectors (1951, now in its 8<sup>th</sup> edition), and, with Graham Pollard, An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets, a devastatingly polite and scientific exposure of the famous book collector and bibliographer, Thomas James Wise (1859-1937), as the co-forger of numerous fake literary “rarities.”</div>
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9) A great deal of information on Whitman is readily available. Start with the Betty Smith’s article “<a href="http://harvardmagazine.com/2008/01/sarah-wyman-whitman">Sarah Wyman Whitman: Brief Life of a determined artist, 1842-1904</a>,” that appeared in the Harvard Magazine. There is also an entry in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_W._Whitman">Wikipedia</a>, which includes the portrait reproduced above. Finish, or better yet start, with the Boston Public Library’s amazing <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/sets/72157604192955355/">Flickr page</a>, which includes 325 pictures of Whitman bindings.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The cover is a model of using space effectively, color, and suggestion. The effects are achieved using only two colors (light blue and black) and gilt on a grayish-blue cloth. The central image of the snow-bound train is enclosed in a rigid frame, with the front of the engine only one eighth of an inch from the left frame. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The claustrophobic feeling is reinforced by the gilt lettering which pushes the image into an even smaller space. At the same time the train seems to stretch beyond the right frame creating tension in the design. No trees or clouds or any other feature other than snow and train relieve the loneliness of the setting. The colors add to the effect as the light blue reflective snow contrasts with the dead flat black of the train, with the blue cloth suggesting both darkness and cold. We have no real idea how serious the drifting is as there is no indication of how far the drift extends in either direction. But is the wind still howling? You bet! Is the bell on the engine silent? Absolutely—it’s snow covered. And the engineer seems to have removed himself to warmer parts of the train. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To
reiterate a point made above, this complex design is achieved using only gilt,
two colors of ink, and a masterful use of the cloth color to enrich the
image. Color stamping was an added cost,
and publishers regularly limited the number of colors used. Each color normally required its own stamping
die, and though designers regularly used three, four, or even five colors, it
would certainly have been a selling point to use as few as possible. As mentioned in last month’s post, white was
a particularly difficult color to work with and tended to wear badly. White lettering, particularly on the spine,
seldom survives intact; and large areas of white, as in large floral designs or
snowscapes, quickly rubbed and flaked.
The Decorative Designers solved this problem by choosing a light blue
ink for the snow, enhancing the effect of the design (white would have
radically changed the mood the design engenders) while avoiding the inevitable
rapid deterioration of white ink on cloth.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The
binding design represents a central aspect of the book’s plan as well as enticing
the potential reader (and book purchaser, of course) with its captivating image. As Will Carleton explains in the last section
of the book, “After-words”, under the heading “Title and plan of book”:<o:p></o:p></div>
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“In the course of a number of
weeks’ travel each year up and down the country, in the intervals of other
work, lecturing, reading, “orating,” etc., I have several times been “drifted
in” on trains; and have in such cases seen some very instructive and diverting
phases of human nature. The environment
of railroad-life has a character of its own, full of interest: for The World
Away from Home is in many respects different from what it is within the
precincts of its local bounds.
Especially is this the case under abnormal conditions, as of a train being
“stalled” for a few hours, or, as sometimes occurs, for days at a time.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Over
the course of this 136 page poem, the narrator relates a cross country train
journey in jogging tetrameter couplets.
The main narrative is interrupted by 34 “incidental” poems, in a variety
of meters and rhyme schemes, either told by the narrator as sounds or scenes of
the journey inspire him, or by various passengers. About a third of the way through, the train
halts:</div>
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“But
sounds of the engine’s steam-whirled mill<o:p></o:p></div>
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Came not to my couch; the wheels
below,<o:p></o:p></div>
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That
had shaken car and track, were still,<o:p></o:p></div>
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And nought except footsteps to
and fro<o:p></o:p></div>
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The
lengths of the curtained aisle, was heard, <o:p></o:p></div>
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With
now and then an impatient word, <o:p></o:p></div>
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Less
welcome that e’en the loudest din—<o:p></o:p></div>
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Informing
us we were “drifted in”!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">After
a great deal of confusion the passengers begin to gather together and tell
stories, with the narrator introducing each and providing further description
and commentary on their plight. </span></div>
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“Frowned
on us the storms white face once more,<o:p></o:p></div>
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With
sterner menaces than before;<o:p></o:p></div>
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(Thus—to
his sorrow—a punster sinned:<o:p></o:p></div>
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“It’s
merely getting its second wind!”)”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The
morning broke with a cloudless sun,<o:p></o:p></div>
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And all was merry to our glad
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The
mountains of drifted snow had gone<o:p></o:p></div>
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Enough to release us from our plight.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There
came two rescuing engines near:<o:p></o:p></div>
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The
storm was over—the track was clear!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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and the book ends.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Considering
the theme of the journey with interpolated stories from various travelers, I
can’t help but wonder if Carleton had in mind a homespun “Canter-buried Tales”.<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">William
McKendree Carleton, poet, journalist, editor, and lecturer, was born October 21,
1845 in Hudson, Michigan and died December 18, 1912 in Brooklyn, New York (1). As a poet, he was enormously popular in the
late 19<sup>th</sup> and early 20<sup>th</sup> century, though he is seldom
read now. His poetry was sentimental and
humorous, and dealt with the lives of ordinary people, most successfully in his
poetry of rural life. His most
successful book was his first, Farm Ballads, published by Harper & Brothers
in 1873. This first book by a relatively
unknown poet (his poems had only been published in newspapers and other
periodicals to that time) was a phenomenon and highly successful financially,
selling over 20,000 copies in the year of publication. Other volumes in the same vein were Farm
Legends (1875) and Farm Festivals (1881) both published by Harper. He also wrote a similar urban series: City
Ballads (1885), City Legends (1889), and City Festivals (1892), all published by
Harper and kept continually in print for decades. In September, 1894, Carleton began his
monthly magazine Every Where, “a monthly periodical devoted to poems, short
stories and timely topics.” (2) Carleton
himself contributed many of the articles and poems published in the Every
Where. With the magazine Carleton also
founded the Every Where Publishing Company in Brooklyn, New York. In addition to Every Where magazine, the
Every Where Company published 21 books or pamphlets between 1901 and 1913. Both enterprises ended shortly after his
death in early 1913. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After looking at images of most of Every Where Pub.
Co.’s output, this book struck me as an anomaly. Putting aside the pamphlets, their book work looks
plain and amateurish. A representative example
is Ralph Kent Buckland’s In the Land of the Filipino (1912). </span></span></div>
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Moffat (1866-1946) and Robert Sterling Yard (1861-1945) were both Princeton
graduates who worked for Charles Scribner's Sons, Moffat as business manager of
Scribner's Magazine, and Yard as manager of book advertising for the company. In 1905 they announced that they would
forming a general book, picture and periodical publishing business in New York.
(3) From the beginning it was obvious
that they would be publishing attractive books; and it was also obvious that
they would be using skilled and respected artists for their books. Their first published book was Richard Barry’s
Port Arthur: a Monster Heroism, featuring a signed cover design by the
Decorative Designers; in fact, between 1905 and 1908 (and perhaps after) the
firm did numerous covers for Moffat, Yard and Company, mostly signed, but with others
so much in the Decorative Designers style that the covers can be attributed them with some
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In
1907, Moffat, Yard asked Carleton to write a poem to correspond with
illustrations already made by James Montgomery Flagg. Carleton sent them “In Old School Days” which
was published with floral signed endpapers by the Decorative Designers, and an
unsigned cover design and decorations probably also by them. (4)</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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works. Illustrated by famous artists.” Interestingly the edition size is also
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Advertisement from Every Where magazine, October, 1907, for Drifted In, with a second ad from the preceding page which I couldn't resist including.</span></div>
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as the design is unique. Size is a
possibility though other titles, such as Farm Ballads, are larger while others,
such as Rhymes of Our Planet are smaller.
Perhaps this was just meant to play on the seeming human need to collect
sets? And what are we to make of the “first
edition” information? Does this mean
that “first editions” were the books with the imprint of Every Where? Was the number of copies printed with that
imprint limited to the number of “advance orders” received by the time the book
appeared in December? When did the
Moffat, Yard copies first appear relative to the Every Where copies? <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Or is it simply the equivalent of today’s “this price is only
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For those who can’t get enough of the Decorative Designers, this
book provides another treat. The
advertisement mentions that Drifted In is “illustrated by famous artists,” and
the book does include nine illustrations—a color frontispiece and 8 black and
white plates. Three of the illustrations
are unsigned, three are signed “Wm. Oberhardt”, and three are signed with the
DD monogram of the Decorative Designers. William Oberhardt (1882-1958) was an American artist, portrait painter, illustrator, and sculptor. He was widely known and very popular in the 1920s and 1930s in the United States, so these illustrations came from early in his career when he was establishing his reputation. Who among the Decorative Designers produced the three DD illustrations we don't know, but they demonstrate that the firm could do much more than cover designs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: justify;">(1)
Carleton portrait from Amos Elwood Corning’s Will Carleton: a Biographical
Study. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: justify;">New York: Lanmere Publishing
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A History of Book Publishing in the United States. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1975. Vol. 2, p. 378-9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-- autumn has come and, unbelievably, is nearly past. Outside it's overcast with not much of autumn's characteristic crispness, and only a few leaves remain on the trees. But inside we have a crisp binding to share: The Poetical Works of John Keats, edited with notes and appendices by H. Buxton Forman. Complete edition. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., c1895.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Before we take a closer look at the design, I hope you’ll bear with me for an anecdote about finding this particular book. I’ve been travelling to bookstores in search of trade bindings for several decades and browsing for them is not as daunting as it might seem at first. Although they are generally not displayed with the front covers out, and you’re usually confronted by shelf after shelf (or wall after wall) of book spines, it becomes almost second nature to recognize the look of a book published before 1920, and more often than not to be able to tell in what decade, the 1890s for example, the book was published. Sliding the book out – not by the headband please! – and glancing at the cover only requires a few seconds, after which the book is either in your pile or back in position and you’re on to the next. I was once in a bookshop in a small town in northeast Ohio which specialized in small press fantasy and horror titles, comics and ephemera, older paperback science fiction and some general stock, with much of the non-genre books gathered in one place on a range of shelves. Since trade bindings can be found in almost any subject I glanced over the shelves and, to my great surprise, I spotted a likely candidate almost immediately. Keats, of course, described my feelings perfectly in his sonnet “On first looking into Chapman’s Homer”:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I remember the scene in that small town bookstore looking something like this:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The spine of the book had the look of a publication from the first decade of the 19</span><sup style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> century and something about the grape vine decoration looked very familiar.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When I pulled out the book and looked at the cover I knew from the lettering on the cover that this was a Margaret Armstrong design, and her monogram confirmed it.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This, however, was a title that I did not recognize.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There will be more on that later.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the meantime, let’s take a closer look at the cover</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As discussed in an earlier post, Margaret Armstrong, who designed this cover, almost never designed a pictorial cover and even less frequently included any human feature in her designs. Instead her work was ornamental and this cover is no exception. The cloth is a dark greenish-blue, with four major motifs: a (Grecian) urn on a pedestal with the ins</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">cription “Adonais”, a laurel wreath, a frame of grape vines and grapes, and a scroll with the book’s title. The urn and grape vine motifs represent two of Keats’ best known odes: To Autumn<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the Ode on a Grecian Urn. The urn and pedestal might also be seen as a funerary monument to Keats, particularly with the “Adonais” inscription (referring to Percy Shelley’s “Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats”). The laurel wreath also represents Keats poetic achievement and is a common motif on bindings of poetry books. The spine design continues the theme with more grape vines and grapes wrapping the title. To the right of the wreath is Armstrong’s monogram. As a final indicator that this was meant to be a quality production, the top page edges are gilt.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I've seen the Crowell "1895" Keats on a number of occasions with all of the copies either rebound or bound in red cloth with minimal decoration (lettering and a blind-stamped ornament). Which brings us full circle to my anecdote on finding trade bindings. Based only on online descriptions from booksellers or other sources, the likelihood of finding this book online is extremely low—not knowing that it exists makes it even more unlikely. Trade bindings are usually not described in any detail beyond "decorative" or "illustrated cloth", and to include Margaret Armstrong’s name in the description a dealer would have to be familiar with her “MA” monogram and think it important enough to include. Many dealers include pictures for selected books and this can be a help, but many dealers do not. An online bookseller’s description of condition also often needs to be taken with a peck of salt—one person’s “very good” is another person’s doorstop. The move to online bookselling has had enormous benefits, particularly for known item searching, but for discovering materials such as decorated bindings there is still much that needs to be improved. I enjoy searching thousands of booksellers’ stocks while drinking coffee in a familiar setting—but I treasure that “stout Cortez” moment in an Ohio bookstore.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(1) Gullans, Charles and John Espey. Margaret Armstrong and American Trade Bindings. Los Angeles: University of California Los Angeles, 1991.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(3) If you’re not familiar with this extraordinary resource by Sid Huttner at the University of Iowa, <a href="http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile/index.html">check out the website</a>. The purpose of the project “is recovering the publishing history of single 19<sup>th</sup> century book. Owen Meredith’s Lucile was first published in 1860, by Chapman & Hall in England and as a Ticknor & Fields “Blue & Gold” in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thomas Young Crowell (1836-1915) started a small publishing firm in New York at 744 Broadway. The Thomas Y. Crowell Company, under variations of the name, existed from 1876 to 1979 when it was taken over by Harper and Row. In his publishing activities “He preferred solid books and was chiefly interested in those that would inspire or be useful for reference, sa that one editor was to say that ‘never issued a book that one is not better for having read.’” Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 49, p. 108.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Paul Hesslinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04183069108251653271noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998199202092941550.post-61643866815914559582016-10-31T15:48:00.001-04:002017-06-01T13:50:10.888-04:00Halloween with Lee Thayer<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Happy Halloween from the American Trade Bindings Collection at UNCG! After a very busy summer, we’re back with an October pick for you to enjoy as you surreptitiously pilfer candy from your child’s trick or treat bag. Our featured title is The Scrimshaw Millions, by Lee Thayer (New York: Sears Publishing Company, 1932), and is a part of Special Collections’ large Robbie Emily Dunn Collection of American Detective Fiction.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The book’s cover features a jaunty skull and crossbones wearing(!) spats and a rakishly tipped top hat. Naturally enough, it’s also smoking a cigarette. But what catches the binding lover’s eye as much as the cover is the name on the cover – Lee Thayer, aka Emma Redington Lee Thayer (1874-1973), one of the original two Decorative Designers. For those who don’t know of the firm, they were founded in 1895 by Henry Thayer, who was trained as an architect. He quickly hired Emma Redington Lee, trained in decorative arts at the Cooper Union, Pratt Institute, and Associated Artists. Lee married Thayer in 1909, and was thereafter known as Lee Thayer. What made the Decorative Designers unique for a design firm was that it included several artists and used division of labor to complete designs. The firm also included (at various times and for varying lengths of time) Rome K. Richardson and Adam Empie who transferred and engraved designs, and Charles Buckles Falls and Jay Chambers who provided figures. These artists also created cover designs on their own, sometimes using their own monograms (for example, "RR" by <a href="http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/search/collection/tb1/searchterm/rome%20richardson/order/nosort">Rome Richardson</a> and "F" by <a href="http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/search/collection/tb1/searchterm/charles%20buckles%20falls/order/nosort">Charles Buckles Falls</a>). Henry Thayer did much of the lettering, and Lee Thayer, provided borders, and ornamental designs. The firm dissolved in 1931, but was able to produce the astonishing output of over 25,000 design items, including thousands of book covers. The American Trade Bindings Collection currently includes <a href="http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/search/collection/tb1/searchterm/decorative%20designers/field/creato/mode/all/conn/and/order/nosort">120 covers by the Decorative Designers</a>. (1)<o:p></o:p></div>
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But Lee Thayer had another career -- mystery novelist -- which began well before the dissolution of the Decorative Designers. <br />
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Her 60 novels, beginning in 1919 with Mystery of the 13<sup>th</sup> Floor, featured private investigator Peter Clancy, who was later joined by his British valet Wiggar. Dusty Death (1966) was Thayer’s final Peter Clancy novel. Her mysteries are not highly regarded now, but certainly must have enjoyed a degree of popularity in their time. It’s hard to see how 60 of them, many in Dodd, Mead’s “Red Badge Detective” series, would have been published otherwise. Even though decorated bindings were largely dying out by the time Lee Thayer began writing, a number of her books published before 1932 bear the conjoined DD monogram of the Decorative Designers. For example:<br />
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Of more interest is Thayer’s double role as both author and dust jacket designer for her books. Although Special Collections holds 54 of Thayer’s 60 books, the majority are not in dust jackets. This isn’t surprising as fiction, particularly genre fiction, was read rather than collected, and dust jackets perished on a grand scale—damaged, worn out, or discarded. Today they are often very hard to find -- even harder to find in good condition – and can be extremely expensive. It’s not at all unusual to find that a dust jacket will double, triple or even more highly multiply the cost of a book over a jacket-less copy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The following are a sampling of Thayer dust jackets that we do hold, and that were selected for their Halloween-appropriateness. Note that all of these designs include Thayer's new monogram, "LT", and usually include the date. It’s clear that Lee Thayer never lost her ability to catch and hold the eye, whether with stamped cloth or an excellent jacket! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Finally, a cover design by Thayer for another of her novels -- in case you need a little help with your candy-pilfering.<br />
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1) For an excellent brief overview of the firm and some of their highlights in binding design, see the essay by Charles Gullans and John Espey, “American Trade Bindings and Their Designers,” in Jean Peters (editor). Collectible Books: Some New Paths. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1979.<o:p></o:p></div>
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2) The binding is plain on this copy. A.L. Burt was a reprint publisher and often did not reproduce cover designs. This title was first published by Doubleday, Page and Company, and we do not know whether this jacket design or another design was on the original publication, or whether like this printing it was plain.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Paul Hesslinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04183069108251653271noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998199202092941550.post-11762719067778488762016-06-10T13:35:00.000-04:002017-06-12T08:57:23.099-04:00New “Finds” (A guest post by Mark Schumacher)<br />
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In the last few weeks, we have come across several new illustrators and artists, most of them women, who also contributed to the world of binding design. Most of the books involved are volumes aimed at children—readers, introductions to geography, and tomes of fairy tales or familiar legends, like Robin Hood. Although these designs may not always have the elegance of other covers [see http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/tb1/id/2042/rec/1], they do show us artists heretofore unknown as book designers.<br />
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<b>Charlotte Harding (1873-1951)</b>, a student of Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia, worked as an illustrator for several popular magazines in the early 20th century, and was a member of The Plastic Club, an organization for female artists, also in Philadelphia. She also worked with Alice Barber Stephens (1853-1932). Her cover for Eva March Tappan’s Robin Hood, his book (1903) reflects the style of her illustrations for the volume. The illustrations won a Silver Medal at the International Exposition in Saint Louis in 1904! A 1982 exhibit of her works included eight books and scores of magazine illustrations.<br />
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Little is known about <b>Mabel Betsy Hill (b. 1877)</b>. She illustrated numerous books designed for young children: an abridged edition of Alice in Wonderland (1920), and several readers, of different levels, including some of those Emma Bolenius, published by Houghton, Mifflin.<br />
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<b><br /></b> <b><br /></b> <b><br /></b> <b>Louise Mapes Bunnell Keeler (1872-1907)</b> was the wife of author Charles Augustus Keeler (1871-1937), and designed covers for several of his books. They lived in the San Francisco area; his books were issued almost exclusively by California publishers, including Paul Elder.<br />
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<b>Ralph Fletcher Seymour (1876-1966) </b>was a well-known painter, author and publisher, who also designed bookplates. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Fletcher_Seymour] He ran the Alderbrink Press in Chicago for over 60 years. He designed the cover for Adelaide Holton’s The Holton Primer (Rand, McNally, 1901); the same design was also used for some of the Lights to Literature series, also by Rand, McNally, and authored by several different people.<br />
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Born in St. John, New Brunswick, and raised in Boston, <b>Elmer Boyd Smith (1860-1943)</b> spent several years studying art in France before finally settling in Wilton, Connecticut. “While living abroad, Smith absorbed a wide swath of influences ranging from the muted, mystery-laden palette and epic vision of French muralist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes to the dashing graphic shorthand of poster artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec” (Brooklyn Public Library website). His cover design<br />
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<b>Emma Troth (1877-1944)</b> was an illustrator whose covers, although not signed, match the illustrations in the books. Songs of Sixpence, by Abbie Farwell Brown (Houghton Mifflin, 1914) is another example of her work.<br />
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The design on Mr. Do-Something also appears on Wade’s The Island of Make-Believe (1914).<br />
<b><br /></b> <b><br /></b> <b>Alexander Key (1904-1979</b>) is probably most famous for writing Escape to Witch Mountain which became a movie on several occasions. He lived in North Carolina much of his life. He was, however, an illustrator before his success as a writer. Among his cover designs is Belle River Friends in Wings and Feathers (Lyons and Carnahan,1928)<br />
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<b>Charles Copeland (1858-1945)</b> was a popular illustrator who worked on The Song of the Syrian Guest (for which he probably did the cover), and an edition of Robinson Crusoe. He also designed the cover of the 1911 edition of Pinocchio in Africa, for which he also did original illustrations.<br />
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<b>Eric Pape (1870-1938)</b> was a painter and illustrator. He studied art in Paris in his late teens. He taught for a year in Boston and may have even met Amy Sacker there. He illustrated books for L. C. Page (such as The Lotus Woman, by Nathan Gallizier) and other publishers.<br />
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<b>Dorothy Rittenhouse Morgan (1899?-1992)</b> was another illustrator of children’s books. Her cover designs include A Peep into Fairyland (1927) and Numberland (1928) for D. C. Heath and Company, which she also illustrated. Her illustrations also appear in an edition of Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby (1930).<br />
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<b>Troy (1871-1938) and Margaret West Kinney (1872-1952)</b> were a husband-and- wife team of authors/artists/illustrators. One bookseller described them as “among the most prominent of their era.” They painted numerous frontispieces and other illustrations for Macmillan, A. C. McClurg, L. C. Page, and other publishers, as well as magazines such as Century and Saturday Evening Post. Margaret studied with both William Merritt Chase and in France with Luc-Olivier Merson. Together, they wrote an important book on dance, first published in 1914, still of value today. They provided covers for two books by Millicent Mann, apparently the only two books she wrote: Lady Dear (A. C. McClurg, 1905) and Margot the Court Shoemaker’s Daughter (McClurg, 1901).<br />
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<b>J W Ferguson Kennedy (?-?)</b> was an artist and illustrator who designed the cover of Leslie Cope Cornford’s Sons of Adversity (Page, 1898). He worked in the Boston area, and illustrated at least four books by James Otis, for which Amy Sacker did the cover design. His wife was also involved in the same circle of women’s clubs in the Boston area as Amy was. She, like Amy, was a lecturer on a variety of topics.<br />
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<b>Lucy Fitch Perkins (1865-1937)</b> was an author and illustrator of children’s books, most well known for her “Twins Series”, 21 volumes exploring the world. She illustrated and created the cover for Blanche Wade’s Garden in Pink (A. C. McClurg, 1905), as well as her own Robin Hood, his Deeds and Adventures (Houghton Mifflin, 1923). The covers replicate illustrations within the text.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Gertrude Spaller (later, Kinder)</b> (1892-19 ??) was a painter (including murals and other public works) and illustrator working in the Chicago area. She provided the drawings for Helen Buttrick’s Principles of clothing selection (1929), as well as illustrations and covers for several other titles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“… some covers just do that to you—make a strong initial
impression and then stay with you. Perhaps it’s an unusual cloth color,
or an image that's hard to forget, or both … It might be a great example of a
design style or what seems to be<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>the</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>representative cover by a certain
designer. It could be a train wreck that you can’t look away from, or
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the month for April—it was not a particularly cruel month, but it was busy. To partly make up for this April foolish behavior
here’s a binding design by the renowned Margaret Armstrong featuring TWO fools!</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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addition to easing my conscience, this design holds a distinctive place in the
work of Armstrong. Although her covers
could be representative of many genres—ornamental, art nouveau, decorative,
floral, emblematic—they very rarely were pictorial. Even scarcer are figurative designs. Gullans and Espey note that other than on
designs featuring medallions or busts (3 in total), the human face doesn’t
appear in her cover designs, and the human figure never. (1) The last is not strictly true, as Folly for
the Wise demonstrates. The two fools are
highly stylized, but they do represent Armstrong’s only human figures. Not that she could not draw figures and draw them well; illustrations and page decorations she created clearly show this. But for binding designs she chose not to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Marguerite Bouvet, with a medallion of Cerulea that Gullans and Espey ascribe
to Helen Armstrong, Margaret’s sister (Chicago: McClurg, 1892, which we do not
have in our collection); 2) a medallion on The New Pacific (pictured below); 3) and a bust of St. Cecilia on Love Letters of a Musician. The last of these designs
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For this two month post, I decided to take my inspiration from the rhyme “April showers bring May flowers” (and, just for laughs, here’s how Wiktionary explains the “proverb”: </span><span style="color: #252525;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“April, traditionally a rainy period, gives way to May, when flowers will bloom because of the water provided to them by the April rains.”) With that astonishing explanation, I’ll introduce our April Binding of the Month.</span></span></div>
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of Life, by Old Don Henri. Chicago,
Ill.: Western Publishing Company, 1888.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is a title that I had forgotten we had
until I started searching for some visualization of rain in a binding
design. When I look at a cover I’m
usually first concerned with the front cover—how it looks when you’re about to
open the book; then I look at the spine only—how it will look on the shelf. This book requires a third viewpoint—how it
looks when fully open. Most books keep
the main interest on the front cover, often only stamping the author, title,
publisher, or some combination on the spine in gilt or white. Less often the spine features some pictorial
feature or other ornamentation.
Infrequently the design is continued from the front cover across the
spine, and very infrequently the design stretches across the front cover,
spine, and back cover. For the
collector/browser in a bookstore (either when the book was first published or
in a modern used book store) the spine is the view one gets. As a collector, one becomes fairly adept at
recognizing in which decade a book was published by the look of the spine,
which often indicates whether the covers might be decorated and thus saving
valuable browsing time. This book’s
spine is very intriguing with its string of silver and black clouds at the top
and a mysterious “Old Don Henri” in silver where the publisher is usually
found.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When
fully opened the design seems to me to progress from the back cover to the
front cover, with the spine providing both a connection and break between the
main features of the covers. The back
cover shows a very somber image of clouds and rain with a great deal of brown
and black in the silver clouds and only a few streaks of silver in the rain
which is mostly rendered in black. There
is no brown in the clouds on the spine where the design is reduced to only 2 ¼
inches. The front cover explodes with “light”,
seemingly from between the silver wings—and I should note here that although
the light color appears to be white, on the cover it is clearly silver, a
hazard of scanning. An interesting
effect is gained by using the grain of the cloth to enhance the beams of
light. When magnified (see below) the machine
created “grain” of the cloth is clearly visible. On this book, the cloth has a very fine
diagonal rib grain, running from the upper left to the lower right. The silver beams follow the grain exactly with
the ribs and spaces between them filled with silver thus brightening the
effect. Of course, the rain on the back
cover run counter to the grain, making the back cover design even more somber.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The last
feature I’d like to highlight is the binding’s beveled edges. This is the first instance of beveled boards seen on this blog, and is a feature most often used on gift books, special editions,
or on what we might call coffee table books.
Here's a close up of the bevels on the rear board.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Old
Don Henri” was, not surprisingly, a pseudonym.
The actual author was Henry Lathrop Turner, a military man, who later
turned to banking and real estate. He
was born in Oberlin, Ohio on August 26, 1844 and died in Chicago on July 12,
1915. He was married twice and served in
both the Civil War and the Spanish-American War, rising to the rank of Colonel.
As the obituary in his alma mater’s
(Oberlin College) alumni magazine noted “He was a man of fine literary tastes
and was the author of books and poems” (2).
His books included The Amateur Speaker's
Hand Book (1906), several books on military topics, and books of poems
including The Lovely Land of Sunset: a Souvenir of Santa Barbara (1886), Into Death's
Country (1887), Sabre, Saddle and Sentiment for the Full Grown: Story and Song
for the Little Ones (1893), and, of course, Echoes of Life (1888). The poems in “Echoes” don't seem
particularly inspired and are presented in a variety of typefaces. One typeface in particular is so eccentric that it’s almost unreadable. Here’s a
few lines from “The Shadow Prince” to give you an idea of the face:</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Though Turner uses a variety of metric forms and rhyme schemes, I was interested to see that this one, as well as the other longer poems, are in trochaic tetrameter (the same meter used in Longfellow's Hiawatha!)</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Of more interest is the information given on the verso of the title page
that lists the illustrators (</span><span style="line-height: 107%;">Myra
Manley, W. De Meza, J.L. Denslow and C.E. Sickles, all under the supervision of
Mr. Sickles), the printer (Knight & Leonard Co., printers, Chicago), and the
binder (W.B. Conkey, binder, Chicago). An illustration by W. De Meza, also from “The
Shadow Prince”, might even be the inspiration for part of the cover design:</span></span><br />
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use all of this information when describing a book, and particularly welcome publisher supplied information on the binder or, very rarely, the binding
designer. W.B. Conkey Company was
founded by Walter B. Conkey in 1877. At
the age of nineteen, Walter first set up a small bindery in a Chicago basement. He later added printing work, and by the late
1890s was a large and successful publisher and manufacturer. In 1897, Conkey built an enormous plant in
Hammond, Indiana, a town close to the southern edge of Chicago on the
Indiana/Illinois border. Conkey was
widely known for high quality and craftsmanship in all aspects of his company’s
work, while maintaining affordable prices.
Among his competitors’ products, his were known for “their durability
and their attractive bindings and design.” (3)
His son, Henry, took over the business after Walter’s death in 1923, and
the firm was sold in 1949 to Rand McNally.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">General
location of the W.B. Conkey Hammond, Indiana plant at 617 Conkey Street today
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Finally, a note on the publisher. The Western Publishing House of Chicago,
Illinois, was one of a great many “subscription” publishers in the later years
of the 19<sup>th</sup> century. Briefly,
this type of publisher eschewed the static bookseller model where customers
came to view and buy products, and instead viewed books as merchandise to be advertised
and sold like other products. A key
feature of this method of publishing was the book agent, whose job was to sell
the publishers’ products directly to readers by presenting them with what is
variously known as “sample books,” “canvassing books,” or “salesmen’s dummies.” Generally the books were on popular topics
and produced cheaply. They were often
illustrated and were made available in a variety of bindings which the customer
could choose from when ordering. Although
many firms specialized in this type of publishing, eventually mainstream book
publishers and some department stores began their own subscription publishing
departments (think Macy’s, for example).
For an in-depth look at the history of
American subscription publishing I highly recommend the University of
Pennsylvania's online exhibit: "Agents Wanted:" Subscription
Publishing in America. (6) One of the canvassing books in our collection is shown below, with our description of the binding. Note that the front cover and spine uses a calf binding with panels stamped in gilt, while the back cover partly replicates the front cover, but is bound in a blue textured cloth with no illustrations except for the central cartouche. The potential customer could select either binding style, although the full calf version would be more expensive. The online exhibit mentioned above gives many more details about these canvassing books.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Salesman's sample. Front cover in panelled calf over bevelled boards with gilt stamped vignettes and ornaments, spine in gilt calf; back cover in dark blue (C183) pebble grain cloth over panelled and bevelled boards, gilt stamped central panel; plain calf cover mounted on front pastedown; gilt blue cloth spine stamped in gilt and calf spine sample mounted on rear pastedown.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">Elwyn Barron. Manders. Boston: L.C. Page and Company, 1899. With cover design by Amy M. Sacker.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is the first
time we’ve featured a binding design by Amy Maria Sacker (1872-1965), although
one of her designs appeared in Callie’s post from last July (“Going out”). </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sacker was one of the major artists in the second
generation of cover designers (along with other luminaries such as Margaret
Armstrong, Alice Morse, Frank Hazenplug, etc.)</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A lifelong Bostonian, she produced designs chiefly for a number of major
Boston publishers, but also did some work for other publishers outside of
Boston including the New York firms of A. Wessels, Thomas Y. Crowell, Cupples
& Leon, and Silver, Burdett & Company.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She was also a teacher and worked in a variety of art media.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For much more information and an illustrated
catalog of her bookwork (including not only cover designs, but illustrations
and bookplates) you should head to our colleague’s, Mark Schumacher’s, Amy Sacker website ( </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amysacker.net/">http://www.amysacker.net/</a> ) where you can see well over 300 of Sacker’s
covers. Our American Trade Bindings site contains <a href="http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/search/collection/tb1/searchterm/sacker%2C%20amy/order/nosort">224 cover images</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The outstanding
design for Manders is striking in its simplicity, featuring a wonderful art
nouveau iris in pale green and pink on a dark blue background. The heavy gilt capital letters emphasize the
rectangular shape of the cover space while providing contrast with the soft and
ethereal curves of the flower which grows through the space between the
author’s first and last names. A
wonderful detail which also ties together the straight and curved aspects of
the design is the adaptation of the double rule border. Single or multiple rules were a standard part
of many cover designs, defining the image space within the confines of the
cover. In earlier posts we saw how these
spaces could be broken by having the center image extend beyond or behind the
borders. This design, however, rather
than breaking the rule barrier, maintains its normal function of defining space
while also incorporating it into the image by using the inner rule to meld into
the iris by forming the base of two of the three leaves. To me this detail of blending the soft with
the hard and the living flower with the architectural border is a masterful
touch. The design is modestly signed
with Sacker’s A S monogram. Fortunately for those seeking her designs,
Sacker often signed her covers with either the letters A S, or with monograms
of “A S” or “A M S” variously arranged.
These and other signatures are also documented at
http://www.amysacker.net/</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As opposed to
Echoes of Life, the plain spine provides no clue to the glory of the front
cover. It is unadorned save for gilt block capitals and horizontal rules. It
would be easy to overlook this book if it was shelved in the traditional way,
although to a collector, this spine looks very characteristic of books
published somewhere in the later 1890s or early 1900s. To a book buyer of 1899, of course, one never
knew what could appear on the cover of a book with such a modest spine. I would hope that I would have taken the
chance, been bowled over, and put down my $1.50 with no hesitation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And
what would I receive for my money? According
to an advertisement in a catalog bound in at the end of Maurus Jokai’s The
Baron’s Sons, I was in for “Bright descriptions of student life in Paris, views
of human frailty, and a dash of dramatic force” not to mention “A romance sweet as violets.”
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A contemporary
review described the book as “a bright and wholesome story, introducing a
child-hero whom every one will love.” The titular Edouard Manders is the son of a
British cad and Marie, a “Quartier Latin grisette, suspected of posing for
artists who were unable to paint draperies and despised landscapes.” The cad dies, the widowed Marie goes back to modeling, and meets and falls in love with a rich American student, Walter Blakemore. “What might have been the outcome, had not
little Manders interfered, we can only conjecture…” intones the review. Afterwards Manders sings to raise money, the American leaves,
complications ensue, Marie pines away and dies for the love of Walter just
after he returns to her in Paris, and Manders grows up to become a famous opera
singer. The favorable review is chiefly
because of Manders, “one of the most winsome child characters whom we have met
in fiction for many a day.”
(8) The <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=fOM-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA121&dq=manders+saturday+review&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwilx7yRnIfNAhWEpB4KHWJmDc4Q6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=manders%20saturday%20review&f=false">brief notice in The Saturday Review (London)</a> was decidedly more mixed, beginning with “’Manders’ is the
piteous story of an unchildlike little child who pondered many things. The passages relative to America … we dismiss
at once, not because they are badly done, but because they have been better
done often enough before.” Ouch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Finally, a note on the author. Elwyn Alfred Barron (1855-1929) was born in Lima, New York. He attended Robert College in Tennessee, and
worked at the Chicago Inter-Ocean as a drama critic and editorialist from 1877
to 1895. During this time he also wrote
plays, novels and poetry. He left
Chicago to live in Paris and London where he continued to write novels and plays,
sometimes in collaboration with Wilson Barrett.
Between 1900 and 1916 he copyrighted 11 plays. From 1907 until his death he lived and wrote
in New York City. Both in his plays and
novels, Barron often used historical settings. (10) His works include the plays A mountain pink: realistic description of
life among the moonshiners of North Carolina (1885), and an adaptation of
George Eliot’s Romola (1897); the novels In Old New York (1900), Marcel
Levignet (1906), and The Triple Scar (1907), in addition to Manders which was
first published by J. Macqueen, London, in 1898; and the dramatic poem The
Viking (1888).</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So there you have our bindings for April and May. Please remember that we welcome comments and would be delighted if you proposed your own binding of the month. As long as it's in our collection, <a href="http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/tb1">American Publishers' Trade Bindings,</a> we will feature it on the blog. If you'd like to provide your own reasons for liking the binding and any other comments, we'll be sure to include them too. Until next month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">What do May flowers bring?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">(1) </span></span>Gullans, Charles, and John Espey. Margaret Armstrong and
American Trade Bindings. Los Angeles:
Department of Special Collections, UCLA, 1991, p. 22-23.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(2) Obituary </span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from Oberlin Alumni Magazine, v. 12, no. 1, Oct. 1915, p. 29, viewed online May 26, 2016.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">(3) </span></span><span style="line-height: 107%;">Murray,
Timothy D.</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">“W.B. Conkey Company.”</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">In Dzwonkoski, Peter, ed.</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">American Literary Publishing Houses,
1638-1899, pt. 1. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research, 1986.</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 49, p.
100-101.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(4) <a href="http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile/publishers/conkey/CONKEY.HTM">http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile/publishers/conkey/CONKEY.HTM</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(5) image from </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">FamilyOldPhotos.com</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">(6) "Agents Wanted:" Subscription Publishing in America, can be seen at: </span>https://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/agents/</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">(7) "</span></span>Selections from L.C. Page and Company’s list of
fiction." Catalog (15 p.) in back of Maurus
Jokai, The Baron’s Sons. Boston: L.C.
Page and Company, 1900.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(8) Review from The Literary World, v. xxx, no. 23, 11 Nov.
1899, p. 375. Boston: E.H. Hames Company, 1899.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">(9) </span></span>The Saturday review of politics, literature, science, and
art, 28 Jan. 1899, p. 121, v. 87, no. 2,257. London: Saturday Review Office,
1899.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(10) <span style="line-height: 107%;">Barron, Elwyn A. Papers, finding aid, Special Collections Research
Center, University of Chicago Library.</span></span><br />
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Paul Hesslinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04183069108251653271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998199202092941550.post-89236731900052065562016-04-07T13:05:00.000-04:002016-04-07T13:05:19.741-04:00Kenny's Choice: March Binding of the Month Club<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
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of North Carolina Greensboro digital projects website is not the only place to
view our collection of American trade bindings?
If you haven’t discovered them yet, let me encourage you to visit the
<a href="http://dp.la/">Digital Public Library of America</a> (DPLA) (1). Headquartered at the Boston
Public Library, the DPLA was launched in April 2013 after years of
planning. Their website gives this
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"The vision of a national digital library has been circulating among librarians, scholars, educators, and private industry representatives since the early 1990s. Efforts led by a range of organizations, including the Library of Congress, HathiTrust, and the Internet Archive, have successfully built resources that provide books, images, historic records, and audiovisual materials to anyone with Internet access. Many universities, public libraries and other public-spirited organizations have digitized materials, but these digital collections often exist in silos. The DPLA brings these different viewpoints, experiences, and collections </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">together in a single platform and portal, providing open and coherent access to our society's digitized cultural heritage." (2)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The UNCG Libraries are a contributing institution to DPLA
through the <a href="https://www.digitalnc.org/about/">North Carolina Digital Heritage Center</a>, one of DPLA’s partners, and
our American Publishers’ Trade Bindings (APTB) collection can be viewed in its
entirety on DPLA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Why bring up DPLA on American Trade Bindings and Beyond? In addition to my personal res</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">pect for what
they’re doing and the quality of the product (11,776,547 digital items as I write
this), <i>and</i> that you can find our bindings on their site, <b>and</b> to celebrate their
third anniversary, I was delighted to find that one of their staff is a big fan
of APTB! Let me introduce you to Kenny
Whitebloom, Manager of Special Projects at DPLA. According to his bio, Kenny “works to
build DPLA’s network of users and supporters through events and programs,
communications, partnerships, strategic initiatives, and other projects that
promote growth and innovation. He previously worked at the Berkman Center for
Internet & Society at Harvard University. Kenny holds a MLIS from
Simmons School of Library and Information Science and a BA in History and
Italian from Vassar College. Kenny’s current favorite DPLA items are the
bindings for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>A Kentucky Cardinal
and Aftermath (1900),<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Like a
Gallant Lady (1897),<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>The
Tent on the Beach (1899), and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>The
Legatee (1903).”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In addition to his accomplishments, Kenny also has great
taste in bindings. The titles he lists have
binding designs by Hugh Thomson, Will Bradley, Margaret Armstrong, and the
Decorative Designers respectively--all very heavy hitters in the world of
binding design, and innovators in illustration and design. </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Thomson" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hugh Thomson</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (1860-1920) was born in
Coleraine, County Londonderry, Ireland and died in London. He was known for his work in periodical and book
illustration. In our context, he
illustrated a number of classic authors, including Shakespeare, Austen, Dickens,
and Oliver Goldsmith, as well as contemporary authors such as James Barrie and
James Lane Allen. In the 1880s and 1890s
he created binding designs (and illustrations) for a number of books for Macmillan
and Kegan Paul. These are instantly
recognizable by their elaborate pictorial scenes, stamped in gilt, and usually
on dark cloth (we have five of </span><a href="http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/search/collection/tb1/searchterm/hugh%20thomson/order/nosort" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">his covers</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> in the collection). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/search/collection/tb1/searchterm/bradley%2C%20will/field/all/mode/all/conn/and/order/nosort">Will H. Bradley</a> (1868-1962) was an artist, book, magazine
and graphic designer, illustrator, typographer, writer, and was considered one
of the pre-eminent poster artists in the United States. He started his own publishing firm, the
Wayside Press, in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1895. He designed covers for both small presses
(H.S. Stone and Way & Williams of Chicago, R.H. Russell of New York) and
large publishing firms (Frederick A. Stokes, John Lane, Dodd, Mead and Company (3)). We've met <a href="http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/search/collection/tb1/searchterm/armstrong%2C%20margaret/field/all/mode/all/conn/and/order/nosort">Margaret Armstrong</a> (1867-1944) in several earlier posts and her work will be featured again; many consider her among the best, if not the best, of the binding designers. For this post, however, my choice from Kenny's favorites is <a href="https://archive.org/details/legatee00smitgoog">The Legatee, by Alice Prescott Smith </a>(Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1903), with a binding by the Decorative Designers--I'm an unrepentant fan of designs on black or charcoal gray cloth...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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flames. The somber black cloth becomes
silhouetted pines against a background of swirling multicolored flames reaching
(by implication) far up into the sky.
This cover is a good example of the switching of foreground image (the
only inked portion of the design) into background, with the illusion of background
black cloth becoming the foreground image.
The extremely restrained lettering in the center of the cover completes
the design. At first glance the darkened
portion of the flames in the upper right might be mistaken as intentional,
representing smoke among the flames.
After a more careful look at our copy and comparing it to the copy at
the University of California, this “effect” turns out to be nothing more than
the result of aging and the thousand natural shocks that cloth is heir to.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Legatee is a story of the lumber districts and lumber
trade in the northeastern peninsula of Wisconsin in the early 1870s. With references to Lake Michigan and the
beaches and bluffs around the town of Wilsonport, the location must be the
southern coast of the Door Peninsula, though this is not specifically
mentioned. A young Virginian comes to
the area after inheriting a lumber mill from his deceased uncle. There is an immediate clash between the
rural, isolated upper Midwest villagers and young Robert Proctor, our hero, who
until the Civil War had been a slave owner.
Neither understands the other and hostility grows. He comes to love Katherine Edminster, the
daughter of the local doctor, and her initial animosity gradually turns to
affection. The novel culminates with an
account of the Great Peshtigo Fire (though not called this in the book) of October 8-10th, 1871 which devastates the
entire region. A very favorable review
in the San Francisco Call of April 26, 1903, draws particular attention to the
creation of original characters and the relationships among them, and that the “The
catastrophe is worked up with dramatic skill and is described with a genuine
intensity of feeling and vividness of pictorial effect.” (4) </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">From the November 25, 1871 </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">issue of</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">
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worst recorded forest fire in North American history.” Coincidentally (or is it? There are theories, including aliens …), a
much more famous fire broke out the same night, October 8th, in Chicago. Although the Great Chicago Fire is now part
of our shared culture, the Peshtigo fire, which killed between 1500 and 2500
people (the devastation was so great that local records were destroyed and an
accurate count was impossible), and burned 1.2 million acres, is little known
today. The fires were caused by a
prolonged drought coupled with high temperatures and sudden cyclonic western
winds which turned small fires, set to clear forest land, into a firestorm,
with “fire tornadoes,” winds over 100 miles per hour, and temperatures of 2,000
degrees. (5)</span></span></o:p><br />
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available. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Alice Prescott Smith wrote
four novels in the early part of the twentieth century, The Legatee (1903)
being her first.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The next two, Off the
Highway (1904) and Montlivet (1906), followed quickly, with her final book, Kindred,
appearing in 1925.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The first three
novels were published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company and the last by Houghton
Mifflin Company, which took this new form of name after incorporating in
1908.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A “List of United States citizens (for the
immigration authorities)” dated Dec. 14, 1927 (6), gives her name as a passenger on
the S.S. “President Van Buren”, sailing from Marseilles, France, Nov. 30, 1927
and arriving at the port of New York, Dec. 14, 1927.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The same source gives her age as 58 years, 1
month, and her place and date of birth as St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 1, 1859.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Her U.S. address was at 992 Green St., San
Francisco, Calif.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The review of The
Legatee mentioned above tells us further that Alice grew up among the people
and scenes she described.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Her father, a
Congregational missionary, had a large parish of widely scattered farms and
villages, and Alice accompanied her father on his many long drives from farm to
farm and “there was not a village she did not know.”</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">During these visits she heard many stories of
the great fire of October 1871. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
review further states that before The Legatee, she had been “content to write
short stories,” and that she had been a resident of San Francisco for the past
thirteen years (i.e. since 1890, so she arrived in California at roughly age
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about a huge fire--but what about the binding designer?" That’s a
fair question. I apologize for treating
the main course like dessert, but when it’s the Decorative Designers you really
have both in one. Much is known about
the firm, in large part because of the pioneering work of Charles Gullans and
John Espey (7) who had the good fortune to interview one of the co-founders of the
firm, Lee Thayer, in the early 1970s. UCLA’s
Special Collections holds a substantial “Collection of Materials by and
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The firm was unique in several ways, first of
all because it was a firm. It was founded in
1895 by the architect Henry Thayer (1867-1940) who quickly hired Emma
Reddington Lee (1874-1973), who was trained in the decorative arts. Emma later married Thayer (1909) and changed
her name to Mrs. Lee Thayer. Two other
artists were hired, Rome K. Richardson, (born 1877) and Adam Empie. Later Charles Buckles Falls (1874-1960) and Jay
Chambers (1877-1929) were added. Most
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other work (the firm also did illustration, dust jacket design, advertising,
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Richardson, who was with the Decorative Designers from 1896-1901, and
Adam Empie transferred the designs to brass plates and engraved them. Charles Buckles Falls and Jay Chambers, the
latter working for the firm from 1902-1913, provided the figurative drawings
used for “narrative” designs. Although
work for the firm was either unsigned or signed with their distinctive interlocked
DD monogram, with the second “D” reversed, all of the artists working for the
firm produced covers that were largely or completely by the single artist. Falls, Richardson and Empie also signed these
solo efforts with distinctive monograms.
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below (except Empie, as we have no examples of his solo work). In all, the firm produced an
astonishing output of around 25,000 pieces of design work, an unknown number of
which were book covers, though they were certainly in the thousands. The firm was dissolved in 1931 and Lee and
Henry Thayer’s marriage ended in divorce the next year. <o:p></o:p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Our digital collection includes 120 covers by
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thanks again, Kenny, for your interest in the American
Publishers’ Trade Bindings digital collection, and for a fine selection of
favorites. And to our visitors, don’t
forget that your’s could be the next selection for Binding of the Month. Just drop us a comment.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(1) Wikipedia article, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Public_Library_of_America"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Public_Library_of_America</span></a>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(2) <a href="http://dp.la/info/about/history/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">http://dp.la/info/about/history/</span></a>
viewed March 30, 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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artistic output and writings, timeline, etc. is at http://willbradley.com/</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(4) “Tale of ‘The
Legatee,’ by Alice Prescott Smith, Is Strong in its Types.” Review: San Francisco Call, Volume 93, Number 147, 26
April 1903. <a href="http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19030426.2.54"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19030426.2.54</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(5) Deana C. Hipke. The Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871. <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="http://www.peshtigofire.info/">http://www.peshtigofire.info/</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Also see “The Peshtigo Fire” (</span><a href="http://www.weather.gov/grb/peshtigofire" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">http://www.weather.gov/grb/peshtigofire</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
) and “The Great </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Midwest Wildfires of 1871” (</span><a href="http://www.weather.gov/grb/peshtigofire2" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">http://www.weather.gov/grb/peshtigofire2</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(6) “New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909,
1925-1957," database with images,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>FamilySearch<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-21741-32740-69?cc=1923888), 4184 - vol 9331, Dec 14, 1927 > image 184 of 486;
citing NARA microfilm publication T715 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and
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and Their Designers, 1880-1915.” In Peters, Jean, ed. Collectible Books: Some
New Paths. New York: Bowker, 1979, p. 32-67.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">(9) Attributions by Lee Thayer as reported by Gullans and Espey in Collectible Books. The image for The Yellow Van is from the invaluable website <a href="http://bindings.lib.ua.edu/sitesearch.html">Publishers Bindings Online (PBO)</a> with my thanks. We have a copy in our collection but it's in poor condition.</span></div>
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Stories, Pictures and Silhouettes for Our Little Ones,” which recently came across my desk. In my
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<br />Calliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08643951145996676435noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998199202092941550.post-1384368135003532552016-02-29T13:26:00.000-05:002016-02-29T13:26:54.847-05:00Hearts Looking at You, Kid: February Binding of the Month Club<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The last day of February, in a leap year, has come. The end of the month of love, with
Valentine’s Day falling squarely in the middle—there to spread its aura over
the days preceding and following. Chocolates
and candies; flowers; dinners; cards, of course, some with astonishing
sentiments--barrels of pure, sweetened and condensed sentiment; and hearts—a
profusion of hearts of every variety in every imaginable material. And “<a href="http://www.necco.com/candy/sweethearts.aspx">sweethearts</a>,” aka “conversation hearts,”
those tiny candy wafers printed with brief but imperishable mottoes (XOXOXO, BE
MINE, MARRY ME, and WINK WINK). I was surprised to learn that the same manufacturer, the New England Confectionery Company, makes, and has made since 1847, the classic and indescribable <a href="http://www.necco.com/Candy/Wafers.aspx">Necco wafers</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now that love and hearts have entered this post, I must
say that I love, perhaps even heart, the cover of our February book (with more
on why after I present the binding). My local NPR station has relentlessly been reminding me
that not only is February the month of love but it’s also the month of giving—“our
volunteers are standing by to take your pledge…” With that in mind we now give you the
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The book is the work of Emerson Hough (1857-1923). <span style="line-height: 107%;">A native of Iowa, Hough was a lawyer, journalist, historian, novelist, sportsman,
essayist, early conservationist, and incurable traveler, particularly in the
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Of most relevance in this
context, Hough was admitted to the bar in Iowa in 1882.</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">Shortly afterwards he was invited by a friend
to join a law practice in White Oaks, New Mexico, where Hough arrived on June
1, 1883.</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">White Oaks was transformed into
the New Mexico town “Heart’s Desire” in the novel.</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">One of the central characters is the
red-headed cowboy “Curly”, about whom Hough wrote a number of humorous stories
from 1902 to 1905.</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">These stories were
turned into his novel about Heart’s Desire, a critical success (2) but a
complete financial failure. (3)</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">Throughout
his career Hough was noted for his humor, objectivity, and honesty,
particularly on western subjects, though he was never considered artistically successful.</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">He finally achieved financial security in
1922 on the strength of his next to last novel, The Covered Wagon, which was adapted for the
movies.</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">His final work, North of 36, was also a huge
success but he died two months after selling the film rights.</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">More information about Hough’s life and work
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horses in silhouette cresting a rise against a blue background suggesting “big
sky” country. The whip and use of the cloth
color to show the sandy nature of the countryside are nice touches. The “rustic” western font used for the
lettering and the binding cloth used, unpatterned rough grain and sand colored,
further reinforce the far western feel of the design. The cover design is completed with heavy dark
red rules and lettering and a vaguely heart-shaped object under the title. Under slight magnification, the latter
appears as two overlapping hearts and confirms that what we will find within is
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But what elevates this design to the sublime is the sheer
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one, keep things under one, tip it, pass it, or wear two of them. Likewise your heart can sink, bleed or be
made of stone or gold; you can wear it on your sleeve, have it in your mouth,
put your hand on it, or change it. But having
a hat on a heart is a long step beyond any cliché or idiom I've heard! Where did this come from? Who was the designer who came up with the
idea of a heart wearing a hat?
Unfortunately, we don’t know at this time but I for one take my hat off
to her or him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jill Robidoux - Necco factory with water tower.jpg, Public Domain, </span><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4786418" style="line-height: 107%;">https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4786418</a></span></div>
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review by Churchill Williams, “Mr. Hough’s ‘Heart’s Desire,’” in The Bookman,
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listed as book no. 5745 in the <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=fnpCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA121&lpg=PA121&dq=Illinois+State+Reformatory+Library+at+Pontiac+heart%27s+desire&source=bl&ots=JNOkgJK2Vs&sig=X1Pt8Py2z3jigHUjCLNBf9SIfNU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjVnPC0xJ3LAhUHHR4KHVM-AmEQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=Illinois%20State%20Reformatory%20Library%20at%20Pontiac%20heart's%20desire&f=false">Catalog of the Illinois State ReformatoryLibrary at Pontiac, Ill., 1912.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2016 Chinese New Year began on Monday, February 8<sup>th</sup>. The year of the monkey! To celebrate, we’ve prepared a short post
featuring monkey bindings. These are not
a type of binding that you can hang from a branch by their tail bands. Nor should you attempt to feed one fruits,
nuts, or insects of any kind, particularly book worms. Rather, they feature monkeys as a theme. Monkey bindings are quite scarce in the
American Trade Bindings Collection, but what we have we now offer in
celebration of the Year of the Monkey.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">New York: L.C. Page & Co., 1900</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">The
Story of Dago by Annie Fellows Johnston (1863-1931), of The Little Colonel
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This children’s story is an
autobiography of Dago, told by himself to “the mirror-monkey” (his reflection). The illustrations are by Etheldred Breeze
Barry (born 1870), a prolific illustrator of children’s books including many by
Annie Johnston. The cover design shows
Dago holding a vase which, along with the monkey’s paw and tail emerge from the
central frame. The inks used on the
binding can vary in different copies, but the really interesting variation is
that on an unknown number of copies the title lettering has an almost
unnoticeable addition: a small cross stroke below the crossbar of the “H” in
“THE.” Here’s a rendering of what I
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In this way a monogram is partly hidden within a title
letter. The monogram in this case is “FH”
for Frank Hazenplug (1874-1931), who changed his name in 1911 to Frank Hazen. We’ll have more to say about him in a later
post. This copy does not have the
monogram in the title letter nor does any image that I found, but I have seen
the variation on a copy. The cover design
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by Amy Sacker (1872-1965), who was a well-known and prolific binding designer.
Our colleague, Mark Schumacher, details the
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we have a pair of monkeys from the cover of Extracts from Adam’s Diary by Mark
Twain. We don’t have to look far to find
that this is an adaptation of a portion of the frontispiece, signed by the
illustrator F[rederick] Strothmann. Whenever
we can we try to identify the artist who produced the cover design. In the period of the artist/designer it
should be remembered, the artist did not actually engrave the die that was used
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simplified, omitting everything except Adam chiseling the face of a woman on a
slab (and covering her own eyes) while two monkeys watch.</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">So no Eve; no smiling pelican, lion, tiger,
or snake; no squirrel perched on the slab, or turtle, or frog sitting on
another drawing; no supporting wall against which the slab rests--which makes
the cover image look unsettlingly like a tombstone.</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">What Adam has <i>acquired</i> though is a fine leafy smock,
although he is naked in the illustration.</span><span style="line-height: 107%;">
</span><span style="line-height: 107%;">In addition, a large chunk of Adam is missing from his upper thighs to his waist (presumably
obscured by the seven blades of grass).</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">A
strange red swatch is also added around the leaf smock and under his arm,
possibly to hold the leaf smock on, although it makes him look more like a
Christmas tree tied to the top of a car.</span><span style="line-height: 107%;">
</span><span style="line-height: 107%;">Thus chastely emended, Adam chisels on… </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I could accept the illustration’s Adam and Eve producing
Cain and Abel, but I have my doubts about the cover Adam. We don’t know who was responsible for this
modest proposal, but I would be very surprised if it were the artist. It seems much more likely that the art
department at Harper had a simplified die made expressly for the cover. For this reason, our description states that
the cover is after the Strothmann illustration and it does not give a binding
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third title is actually from my own collection, but there’s just too much
monkey on this one to pass up.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">Henry
Drummond (1851-1897) was a Scottish minister with a strong interest in the
natural sciences. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">He traveled widely and
became famous after his first book, Natural Law in the Spiritual World, was
published in 1883.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">Undoubtedly his most
popular book was The Greatest Thing in the World and Other Addresses (1894)
which was published and republished in hundreds of editions.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">Every publisher seemed to have an edition or
two, in much the same way that Sonnets From the Portuguese and The Rubaiyat of
Omar Khayyam were publishing “standards.”</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">
</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">If you have any desire to pick up a copy today there are dozens of
editions available.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">In addition to his
scientific and religious writings, he edited the British children’s magazine
Wee Willie Winkie for several months in 1891 while the regular mother and
daughter editorial team, Isabel Aberdeen and Marjorie A.H. Gordon, were in
Canada.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">According to the preface in The
Monkey That Would Not Kill, Drummond wrote the first part of the story as an
anonymous serial which ran in Wee Willie Winkie.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">The story was so popular and requests for a
sequel so great that he wrote another serial with his monkey protagonist
appearing under a new name and in a new setting.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">The first story featured “Tricky” and his
escapades both at sea and on an unnamed Scottish island, and the second, “Gum,”
had the renamed monkey drift ashore in California. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">The
pictorial cover of the book was designed by George Wharton Edwards (1859-1950). He was known for his impressionist paintings
and as an illustrator. He also designed
book covers and in the 1910s wrote, illustrated, and provided cover designs for
a series of travel books, many of which were issued by the Penn Publishing
Company of Philadelphia. Somewhat older
than most of the cover designers we have discussed, he is often not included among
the great designers of the 1890s and 1900s.
A <a href="http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/search/collection/tb1/searchterm/george%20wharton%20edwards/field/all/mode/all/conn/and/order/nosort">selection of his work</a> can be seen at our American Publishers’ Trade
Bindings site. You can identify his
bindings by his monogram, several versions of which are reproduced below.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
British edition of this book was published by Hodder and Stoughton, also in 1898,
but with a very different cover(1). This edition features a design after one of the illustrations by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Wain">Louis Wain</a>
(1860-1939)(2). Wain was an enormously popular English artist
chiefly known for his humorous illustrations of anthropomorphic cats with large
eyes engaged in human behaviors and situations. He often dressed them in clothes, from bowler hats and bow ties to full suits and dresses.
The cover is based on the illustration on page 21 in which Tricky goes
on a painting frenzy aboard the ship Vulcan, at the beginning of which he paints
the ship’s parrot. Did I mention that
Tricky/Gum is continually up to various sorts of mischief?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And finally, because you’ll need a place to keep all
these monkeys, we offer the following:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A Box of Monkeys and Other Farce-Comedies, by Grace
Livingston Furniss. New York: Harper and
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from the <a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00087268/00001/1x">copy held by the Baldwin Library</a>, George A. Smathers Libraries,
University of Florida</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2) Louis Wain led a difficult life. He spent his later years in various mental institutions, possibly afflicted with schizophrenia. This <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htf2fER_T_s">youtube video</a> shows a progression of drawings, roughly before and after he was institutionalized.</span></div>
Paul Hesslinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04183069108251653271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998199202092941550.post-7324657618721797812016-02-08T14:10:00.001-05:002016-02-08T14:10:48.918-05:00January Binding of the Month ClubI'll begin this post with two preliminary matters. First, I wish all American trade binding admirers and aficionados a very happy new year. The second is a confession regarding 2016 resolutions: one of mine was to put up Binding of the Month Club posts earlier in the month during the new year. Fortunately I've blown that one already so I can now concentrate on breaking my other resolutions. <br />
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With that preamble over I'd like to present my binding selection for January. The Friendship's Offering: a Christmas, New Year and Birthday Present, for MDCCCXLIX.</div>
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This book was published in 1849 by Phillips & Sampson of Boston. It's not only a fine example of an <a href="http://cool.conservation-us.org/don/dt/dt1174.html">embossed binding</a>, but it is also an example of a fascinating genre of books published in America from the 1820s to the 1860s called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_book">gift books, literary annuals, or keepsakes</a>. On top of this, the binding is signed. What's not to like?</div>
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First to the binding. The design is in three parts, the front cover, back cover, and spine. The same die was used to stamp the front and back covers which consists of an embossed (raised above the flat surface of the book) ornate floral pattern. This distinguishes it from a stamped design in which the design is impressed into the cover material (also known as blind-stamping when no gold or color is used). The twining leaves break into buds and blossoms in the middle of the design and form a cartouche at the center of the cover. The die is also used to give several "grains" to the cover other than the natural grain of the leather. If you look closely at the texture of the background leather you will notice that the leather outside the outer band of leaves looks different than the surface around the inner band of leaves, which in turn looks different than the leather within the cartouche. The following enlargements illustrate these features.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Detail of embossing directly below the central cartouche; note the detail and how high the pattern rises above the surface</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Net" (rectangular) textured grain around the outside border of leaves. The two lines at the bottom of the image are a raised double rule border and outside of that the actual grain of the leather</span>.</td></tr>
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Left side of cartouche to outer border; the net grain, sand grain, and smooth surface of the cartouche can clearly be seen.<br />
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Although the central cartouche is blank on the front and back covers, it looks to me as if the space has been reserved for either some small image or ornament, which probably would have been stamped in gilt, or for the title of the volume which would have been added in a similar way to the gilt spine lettering. The binding dies, or "plaques" as they are sometimes called, could not only be used on all copies of a particular book. but could also be used on the bindings of other books. Stereotype or electrotype plates for printing a book's text were part of a publisher's stocks and they were often bought by other publishers for their own editions of an author. When a publisher went out of business, from death, bankruptcy, or other reasons, the printing plates could be sold or auctioned off, either for further use in printing or for scrap. The same was true of plates for illustrations and bindings. There was also an active trade in these during the 19th and early 20th century. Our own binding design appeared on at least 15 other publications from 1844 to 1854 according to Edwin Wolf 's catalog of embossed leather bindings. These include ten volumes of the annual Friendship's Offering (1845-1855) and five others. It was first used on the Friendship's Offering of 1845, published by Boston's Lewis and Sampson, subsequently used on the same title through 1850 by Phillips & Sampson, and by E.H. Butler & Co. of Philadelphia from 1852 through 1854 on a variety of titles.<br />
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This brings us to the designer of this binding. Almost all of the bindings featured on "American Trade Bindings and Beyond" have been from the period of the artist/designer, (1880s-1920s) when an artist would supply a design along with colors, lettering, etc. for a cover but did not do the engraving; this was either done by the publisher/printer if they had the facilities (such as Houghton Mifflin's Riverside Press), or would be contracted out to engravers. Our book appeared, however, in the period of the die-sinker or die-engraver. The actual stamping and binding of books were done by a number of bookbinding firms, but the dies were designed and cut by die-sinkers. We are fortunate to know who produced the particular dies which were used to decorate our binding. At the foot of the panel used for the front and back covers, just inside the double rules at the outer corners, our die-sinker identifies himself and where he works.<br />
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Edwin Wolf identifies this signature as that of Alexander C. Morin: "The most active engraver of American manufactured plaques was Alexander C. Morin, a die-sinker of Philadelphia, who for a decade after the mid-1830s worked for the large binderies" (p. 39). Earlier Wolf describes him as "the most prolific e<span style="font-family: inherit;">ngraver of embossed designs ... whose career lasted until 1859 but of whom very little is known" (p. </span>32). Morin was listed in a directory as a "jeweller, chaser & die sinker" in 1821, and he did a good deal of work for the large binding firms of Benjamin Gaskill in Philadelphia and Benjamin Bradley in Boston. It would not be surprising if Bradley's firm bound our book, as it was published by Phillips & Sampson of Boston, but there is no evidence on our book (Bradley frequently stamped his own name on bindings or pasted in a small binder's ticket). I was delighted to find evidence of Morin's work as a silversmith in a reproduction of Morin's mark at the fascinating site <a href="http://sterlingflatwarefashions.com/index.html">Sterling Flatware Fashions and Facts</a>. </div>
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The publisher of Friendship's Offering was the firm of Phillips, Sampson and Company (here appearing under their earlier name, Phillips & Sampson). The firm was formed in the early 1840s by Moses Dresser Phillips and Charles Sampson, William Lee was hired in 1844 but his name never appeared in the firms imprint (other than as "and Company"). Phillips and Sampson both died in 1859 and the firm was dissolved. Lee later became a co-founder of the publishing house Lee and Shepard which is well represented in the <a href="http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/tb1">American Publishers Trade Bindings Collection</a>. Though the firm was prosperous and in addition to publishing important books founded the Atlantic Monthly in 1857, it is also known as the publisher that passed on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Lee was worried, apparently, that it would not go over well in Phillips, Sampson's southern market. So they passed and the novel went on to sell 300,000 copies in its first year for John P. Jewett and Company. Oops. In the current context I'll add that Phillips, Sampson also published 28 gift books according to Bruce Kirkham's Indices to American Literary Annuals.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Information on gift books, annuals, and keepsakes is plentiful.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_book">Wikipedia’s article</a> is a good short introduction, and the always
enjoyable and informative <a href="http://bindings.lib.ua.edu/index.html">Publishers’ Bindings Online</a> (PBO) site has a longer,
well-illustrated <a href="http://bindings.lib.ua.edu/gallery/giftbooks.htm">essay</a> on the subject.
The references listed below are widely available and give more detailed information.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Very
briefly, literary annuals first appeared in Europe in the 1860s, first in
France and shortly after in Germany. The
first English language annual was the Forget-Me-Not, published in London by
Rudolph Ackerman in 1822. The
Philadelphia publishing firm Carey and Lea produced the first American gift
book in 1825 under the title The Atlantic souvenir. From the beginning these were fine
productions, gathering prose essays, short fiction and poetry together with
illustrations and issued in often opulent bindings. They were not only read but were luxury objects
to display on the parlor table. The cost
averaged between $2.50 and $5 at a time when an average salary was $3.50 per
week according to PBO. As the name implies, gift
books were often purchased and given on special occasions, such as Christmas,
birthdays, and other important dates. They
were a product of a time in which literacy was rising, more leisure time was
available, and the middle class was growing, particularly in New England.</span></span></div>
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didn’t take long for publishers to include a presentation page, often illustrated
or chromolithographed, for the purchaser to inscribe to the lucky or treasured
recipient. The primary audience for
these books was women and girls, and they were often edited and filled with
contributions by women (our own modest collection is shelved in the Woman’s Collection in Special
Collections). The gift books were
important for fostering the growth of American literature in that they were
mostly or completely made up of contributions from American authors. Most gift books contained up to ten
engravings after American paintings, though some contained many more. American literature, art, printing and
binding all contributed to their appeal.
From 1825-1865 over a thousand gift books were published.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Inside the binding, Friendship's Offering, which you can <a href="https://archive.org/details/friendshipsoffer00stewrich">view in full</a> on the Internet Archive, is quite typical of the genre. It has a printed title page and an added engraved title page.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Left: n<span style="line-height: 107%;">ote that the date, in Roman numerals, is in a different font than the rest of the title page and it is much fainter. This indicates that the title page was re-used from an earlier year with a new line of type for the date substituted.</span></span><br />
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John Sartain (1808-1897) was an English artist who emigrated to the United States in 1830. He was a pioneer in mezzotint engraving in America, and his work was heavily represented in the gift books. In addition to being a painter, he engraved bank notes and did a great deal of book illustration. As Ralph Thompson says, "volume after volume is decorated with his work, and for its quantity, if not its quality, a measure of admiration is due. ... Others worked in his manner ... but Sartain himself remained the representative mezzotint engraver of his time." (p. 43).<br />
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As mentioned previously, The University Libraries at UNC Greensboro, holds several dozen gift books and annuals. Most of them are from the 1850s and to a lesser extent the 1840s. To give just a taste of the variety of bindings used on them, I've included some other images from the collection.<br />
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Many more images of gift books are available for even the casually interested. Publishers' Bindings Online offers over <a href="http://bindings.lib.ua.edu/gallery/giftbooks.htm">100 images</a> and brief descriptions. The Columbia University Libraries held an exhibition in 1997 on "Gold Stamped Bindings of the 19th Century" which can still be seen as an <a href="https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/bindings">online exhibit</a>. The exhibit included a section on <a href="https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/bindings/gift_book">gift books</a>. Edwin Wolf's book is online and includes many black and white <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=sHgj5zz2CYYC&pg=PR2&lpg=PR2&dq=from+gothic+windows+to+peacocks&source=bl&ots=ZM9Ls_N6Po&sig=wszE0jZiBGaTleIdyR3IiotZ31o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjDsZuMsNzKAhXGKh4KHYycD9EQ6AEIRDAK#v=onepage&q=151&f=fals">photographs and rubbings of bindings</a>. There are many other fascinating aspects of this genre to explore, such as "spurious" gift books, in which a publisher would take the sheets for an existing gift book, add a new title page and possibly a new preface or first work, and then publish the same book under a different title. Apparently many people didn't notice and bought the "new" book for that special someone. You can still find 19th century gift books for sale at not unreasonable prices. With less than a week until Valentine's Day, there's still time for you to surprise someone with one. Feel free to take credit for the idea.<br />
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--Thompson, Ralph. American Literary Annuals & Gift Books, 1825-1865. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1936.</div>
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--Kirkman, E. Bruce. Indices to American Literary Annuals and Gift Books, 1825-1865. New Haven, Conn.: Research Publications, 1975.</div>
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--Wolf 2nd, Edwin, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks: American Embossed Leather Bindings, 1825-1855. Philadelphia: Library Company, 1990. This book is also <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=sHgj5zz2CYYC&pg=PR2&lpg=PR2&dq=from+gothic+windows+to+peacocks&source=bl&ots=ZM9Ls_N6Po&sig=wszE0jZiBGaTleIdyR3IiotZ31o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjDsZuMsNzKAhXGKh4KHYycD9EQ6AEIRDAK#v=onepage&q=151&f=false">available online.</a></div>
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--Frederick W. Faxon. Literary Annuals and Gift Books. Pinner, U.K.: Private Libraries Association, 1973.</div>
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--"Tokens of Affection: Art, Literature, and Politics in Nineteenth Century American Gift Books." Publisher's Bindings Online, 1815-1930. http://bindings.lib.ua.edu/gallery/giftbooks.htm</div>
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--"Phillips, Sampson and Company." in Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 49. American Literary Publishing Houses, 1638-1899, part 2, p. 364-366. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research, 1986.</div>
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--"Gift Book" on Wikipedia, viewed 2/5/2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_book<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 107%;">One of several interesting points about this book is that the cover shows one of the two major causes for the demise of the decorated binding--the illustrated paper paste-on or onlay. The other, of course, was the dust jacket. Paper onlays could be easily and cheaply produced and often did not require a new design, as they were often reproduced from the frontispiece or other illustration in the book, or from some illustration the publisher had on hand. This illustration of Saint Nicholas (or Santa Claus) does not appear in the book. The cover's lettering (in wildly varying fonts) and illustration border of floral ornaments is stamped in gold on dark blue vertical fine rib cloth. But any appropriate (or sometimes not so appropriate) illustration could be used within the border. Fortunately, I was able to find an excellent example of this at <a href="http://hezekiahbutterworth.com/">hezekiahbutterworth.com</a> reproduced below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 107%;">It's difficult to choose between them. On the one hand, we have Santa without reindeer or sleigh contemplating a toy horse; perhaps considering it as an alternative means of transportation. On the other we have what appears to be an athletic sock stuffed with mistletoe. But on both, a bright colorful Christmas image to appeal to the young or the parent. And for the publisher, a children's book by a popular author that could be issued and reissued in varying Christmas dress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The selection for this month is a cover that's both seasonal and one of the more dramatic covers I've seen. In addition, it's a fine example of the importance of condition in collecting and experiencing book cover art. I've seen this book in less than good condition with dirty cloth and dulled gold and it makes no impression at all, other than the wish to see it as it was when issued. Even seeing the spine of <i><b>this</b></i> copy gave me the feeling that something good was coming, but I wasn't prepared for the impression that a very nice copy would make. Without further prelude, here is our November binding of the month, Elizabeth Freemantle's The One and I.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One enormous gold leaf to grab the potential reader's attention. It works.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The book was published by George W. Jacobs of Philadelphia in 1908. According to the book's entry in The Annual American Catalog, 1908:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"This story of a novel wooing in the Canadian northwest is told through the diary of an English girl. Her lover, who finally becomes her husband, 'the One with expectations,' is also English, a handsome, clever fellow running an adjacent ranch. They often meet, their conversations on books and music filling considerable space. The girl writes in her diary very elaborate accounts of the life and the nature around her home, which are rich in information."(1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I haven't read the book, but the third sentence of the summary implies that a certain amount of judicious skimming might be in order. The novel is set in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qu%27Appelle_River">Qu'Appelle River</a> Valley which runs through southeastern Saskatchewan and southwest Manitoba.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was delighted to learn that the river runs close to the wonderfully named Saskatchewan villages/city of <a href="http://www.villageofeyebrow.com/">Eyebrow</a>, <a href="http://www.elbowsask.com/">Elbow</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose_Jaw">Moose Jaw</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The author is a bit of a mystery. All that I've been able to find out about her is that she was born in 1873 and that Freemantle is a pseudonym, her real name being Elizabeth Rockford Covey. Furthermore, this is the only book she seems to have written, although I'm not absolutely certain about that either. She is also credited with a book called Comrades Two (published in 1907 by the Musson Book Company of Toronto). Some sources say that The One and I is actually the American title and edition of Comrades Two, but there is a significant difference in pagination (246 pages in the Musson edition, 319 in the Jacobs edition). Both publications have 4 color plates (one is shown above). A further complication is that the Musson edition does not appear to have a date of publication printed on it. Cataloging records all have the date bracketed with a question mark. So the two may be the same book, with the American edition using 70 plus more pages. The American edition may be an expanded version of the Canadian, they might have been issued simultaneously using different settings of type, or they might be different books. I have not seen a copy of the Canadian edition--either a physical copy or an online copy--so I can't compare the texts, or see if they use the same cover design. The page layout of the Jacobs edition does use a lot of white space at the margins and the bottom of the pages, so it's possible that Comrades Two was stretched to 319 pages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If the book was previously published in Canada, there should be some acknowledgement of Musson if the Canadian edition was published by them in 1907. If the book was expanded for the Jacobs edition, one would likewise expect some statement to that effect either on the title page verso, or in a preliminary note or preface. My guess is that the two titles were published simultaneously and the uncertain date in the catalog records for the Musson title are incorrect, and they should be cautiously dated 1908. The significant difference in pagination would lead me to suspect that the type for the book had been independently set by Musson and Jacobs for their respective editions. If I want to get some closure on this problem it looks like a trip to Interlibrary Loan is inevitable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On a personal note, contemplating this cover design has helped to restore me to some degree of equanimity on the subject of leaves. Specifically, leaves on our property (you know who you are!) Over the last several weeks the tulip poplars, oaks and sweetgums have been giving of their plenty and my attitude has progressed from wonder to irritation to a sense of the hopelessness of existence. But they are all raked, bagged and happily composting somewhere and, as happens every year, I'm now missing them. But lest I get too mellow, there are still those spiky sweetgum balls...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(1) Annual American Catalog, 1908: Full Title Entries, p. 124.</span></div>
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Paul Hesslinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04183069108251653271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998199202092941550.post-12241337086874576902015-11-23T10:06:00.000-05:002015-11-23T10:55:43.962-05:00Marion Louise PeabodyI always get excited when I discover something new--well, new to me anyway. I was looking around for information on Marion L. Peabody a few months back. We have several books designed by her in our collection, which you can view <a href="http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/search/collection/tb1/searchterm/marion%20peabody/order/nosort">here</a>. She was a very talented artist who knew how to provoke a response from her art work. I think my personal favorite of her designs appeared on <u>The up grade</u> by Wilder Goodwin (Toronto: Musson Book Company, 1910). The art nouveau cover design was used on the original 1910 Little, Brown and Company edition also.<br />
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I was looking for information on Marion Peabody because I was trying to complete her authority record while cataloging a book that had one of her designs. An authority record is set up by library catalogers to establish a standardized form of name that is used for all works by an author or other creator (in this case an artist). We do this so someone searching for a particular person does not have to search all the possible names that she might have used, but can find all her works under the standardized form.(1) The authorized form of her name currently is Peabody, Marion L., 1869-. I was looking around for her death date to add to this authorized form of her name. One of my go to places to find out dates for people is FamilySearch.org. I cannot recommend this site enough. It's free, easy to use, and mostly correct. I would still verify some of the information because part of this information is entered by people like you and me off the street, but when you have scanned documents (like in the case I'm about to discuss), it's hard to dispute the accuracy. </div>
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When I was looking for her death date, I came across her passport application from 1921. You can imagine my excitement if you know anything about passport applications from the 1920s! This document is detailed AND it has a photograph of the artist herself. Nothing makes binding designers more real to me than when I see a photograph of them, or a handwritten letter or something along those lines. </div>
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Looking at her <a href="https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV5B-984T">passport application</a>(2) I can verify that she was born in Boston, Massachusetts on April 19, 1869. Her father (who was not living at the time of the passport application) was named Charles K. Peabody and was born in Peabody, Massachusetts. Marion had been living in Italy from April 1912 until October 1920. By the time the passport application was filled out in 1921 she was living at 192 Brattle Street (which is still standing) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She last got a passport from the U.S. Embassy in Rome on July 31, 1920 which was surrendered and cancelled. She was attempting to return to Italy for "family business" and to "study," and she wanted to set sail on a ship named the Critic on May 12, 1921.</div>
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I love how descriptive (or non-descriptive) these passport applications were. In addition to a photograph you were supposed to have a written description. Marion Peabody was listed as:</div>
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Age: 52 years</div>
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Stature: 5 feet 5.5 inches</div>
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Forehead: high</div>
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Eyes: Brown</div>
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Nose: Straight</div>
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Mouth: Medium</div>
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Chin: Prominent</div>
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Hair: Reddish-brown</div>
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Complexion: Fair</div>
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Face: Oval</div>
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This is the photograph that appeared in the application (thanks to the FamilySearch site for making all this information available):</div>
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This is not how I imagined that Marion Peabody looked, but then again I'm not quite sure what I had envisioned. I can almost picture her leaning over a table creating the above binding design.</div>
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Once you start researching, you never know what you will dig up. Again, I say, thank goodness for technology and digitization efforts. Without people taking the time to make this information available online, I would have never been able to find this image or know about her living in Italy for so long without a lot of research in print resources.</div>
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1. If you're interested in this subject, the Library of Congress has prepared a booklet describing the data format catalogers use and the kinds of records we create. You can find it at: <a href="http://www.loc.gov/marc/uma/pt1-7.html">http://www.loc.gov/marc/uma/pt1-7.html</a><br />
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2. "United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV5B-984T : accessed 18 November 2015), Marion L Peabody, 1921; citing Passport Application, Massachusetts, United States, source certificate #17243, Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925, 1561, NARA microfilm publications M1490 and M1372 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,666,802.<br />
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<br />Calliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08643951145996676435noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998199202092941550.post-87009540244113826872015-10-07T13:37:00.002-04:002015-11-18T15:25:53.925-05:00Binding of the Month Club<br />
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certain cover design keeps popping into my head. I like it for no other reason than … I like
it! I don’t know who the designer was;
there are certainly more “elegant” designs; that really doesn’t matter. If I had been browsing in a bookstore in 1902,
that book with that cover would be leaving with me, and my $1.50 would be
staying. The point being that some
covers just do that to you—make a strong initial impression and then stay with
you. Perhaps it’s an unusual cloth color,
or an image that's hard to forget, or both, as with a cover from my <a href="http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/tb1/id/1677/rec/1">June post</a>.(1) It might be a great example
of a design style or what seems to be <i>the</i>
representative cover by a certain designer.
It could be a train wreck that you can’t look away from, or
something that makes you smile.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To celebrate those covers that either of us just <i>like</i>, our Binding of the Month Club begins this
month. (I considered calling it the B##k
of the M#nth Cl#b, but that seems to be trademarked. So we’ll skirt the edges of infringement with
the help of our favorite noun.)</span></span><br />
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Herbert E. The Red-Shirts: a Romance of
the Old Volunteer Fire Department. New
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What a cover! The story, as far as I can tell, is that of our young hero Robert "Bob" Sinclair who moves from New Hampshire to an unnamed large city. Here he becomes fascinated with the volunteer fire departments. He is apprenticed as a stonemason (the same trade as his dour and cheap father) and in his teens becomes involved with volunteer fire department 19. He has a sweetheart, Sallie Taylor. And a dog! A Saint Bernard puppy named Bruno who grows up in the firehouse. He becomes foreman of the Niagara 50 company (Bob, that is, not Bruno), and rises to even greater glory.</span> </span></div>
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It's a little hard to tell who the intended audience is ... general audience? young adults? "every old volunteer fireman"? The <a href="http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435018237172;view=1up;seq=361">10 advertisements</a> for other Street & Smith publications </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at the end of the novel</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> aren't much help. They </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> include 2 books for girls, 2 Alexandre Dumas novels, some "eerie tales of 'Chinatown'", a humorous insect book, (</span><u style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Book of Bugs</u><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">), and a book on ping pong, edited by a "ping pong expert", bound in silk cloth, for only 50 cents!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Although it's not really visible in the picture above, the cloth has a fine (that is, narrow) vertical rib grain. Books have been written about grained cloth, but suffice it to say that here the grained cloth not only gives the book both an interesting visual and physical texture, but emphasizes the orientation of the design. This image of the back cover shows the grain more clearly. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWyHtV_Y6XWW74BHdFwFpGviF1ZLlE16vyhzVUf3msi3Nrojm3SLhnoWdmkE3AF0PLmxrGCGky7aDLTfkKBlkbifoyKjcWMCxFPNiiz4v4CgQt8r1xMqG2u5dW9iWP2Do4uIXsswJAdWKO/s1600/red+shirts+back+cover2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWyHtV_Y6XWW74BHdFwFpGviF1ZLlE16vyhzVUf3msi3Nrojm3SLhnoWdmkE3AF0PLmxrGCGky7aDLTfkKBlkbifoyKjcWMCxFPNiiz4v4CgQt8r1xMqG2u5dW9iWP2Do4uIXsswJAdWKO/s400/red+shirts+back+cover2.jpg" width="275" /></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Notable in this design is the sense of movement. The fireman is breaking out of the frame in four different directions: his left foot is so far "forward" that it rests between the first two words of the title with his heel almost resting on the serif of the "E" and his toes nearly supported by the letter "I" in the following line; his right elbow just about touches the black frame, while his hat does touch the upper frame; the mouthpiece of the speaking trumpet actually does push past the right frame. The abbreviated image of "smoke" or perhaps clouds behind him outlines the silhouettes of buildings, and its lower continuation suggests that he might be running down a street. When preparing a design it was important that the artist have at least some idea of the subject matter or story that was to be contained within the covers. Ideally, she would have the text to examine before starting the design, since the object of the cover was not only to attract the eye, but to give the potential buyer an idea of what was inside the book. No small task when he only had one image to accomplish all this. Sometimes the design might reflect one aspect of the contents, or it could illustrate a representative or important scene. Sometimes it might give a general impression of the genre (for example, a society novel), or it might simply be decorative. I didn't need to scan the book for long to find that the unknown designer of this cover had a specific scene in mind. Bob has recently arrived in the big city and pages 20-21 tell exactly what inspired the cover:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"As I wondered at what his words portended, a man carrying a brass trumpet came tearing around the corner, running in the middle of the street. He was by all odds the queerest figure I had yet seen. He had on a leather hat, with the number 19 on a white shield in front. He also wore a fiery red shirt, and was running as if for dear life. He turned suddenly, put the trumpet to his mouth and called out something that I could not understand, but still kept on running."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Except for the white shield on the hat (on the cover it's red), there's the image</span>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Why did I choose this cover? Aside from thinking it's effective, eye-catching, and--most important--makes we want to read and thus <i>buy</i> the book, I find it a very nice example of the poster style of design. I won't go into much detail on the poster style; books have also been written on that subject. There's a nice essay on the poster style and publishers bindings at the University of Alabama's <a href="http://bindings.lib.ua.edu/gallery/posterstyle.html">Publishers Bindings Online</a> (PBO) site. </span>Briefly, although posters have been around for centuries,
the 19<sup>th</sup> (and 20<sup>th</sup>) century illustrated poster style began in
France and was taken up in America in the 1890s. The “father” of the American poster was
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Penfield">Edward Penfield</a> (<span lang="EN">1866-1925), an
artist who was born in Brooklyn and died in Beacon, N.Y.(4) </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image from the Library of Congress. <br />
Prints and Photographs Division</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He worked from 1891 to 1901 at Harper and Brothers as an illustrator and art editor for the firm and his first poster, for the April issue of Harper's Magazine, appeared in 1893.(5) His style has been described as effectively combining Art Nouveau, Japonisme, and Arts and Crafts "to create some of the finest posters, advertisements, and magazine covers of the 20th century."(6) </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(Our only Penfield cover in the American Publishers Trade Bindings collection. Penfield signed his posters and illustrations with his initials, full name, or the "bull horns" monogram shown on the right)</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Other publishers soon followed Harper in commissioning posters for their magazines and books, and within a few years America had succumbed to a full-blown "poster craze." Collectors were enthusiastic and everywhere. Although the publisher's intention was to use the poster as advertisement and sell more magazines and/or books, the success of the poster as advertisement rather than as a work of art was dubious. In 1896 a collector complained "I purchase the poster now when once I would purchase the book and I do not think my publishers profit thereby."(7) People were buying or obtaining copies of posters from booksellers, publishers and other outlets, but were not rushing out to buy the books or magazines themselves. By the end of the decade the publisher poster phenomenon had largely died out. The designs were instead used on the magazine covers or books themselves. The characteristic poster style began to appear on book covers towards the end of the 1890s, at the same time that posters themselves were in decline. The style continued to appear on covers through the first three decades of the twentieth century until it, along with all other styles of cover design, finally succumbed to the dust jacket. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Let's take another look at The Red-Shirts in comparison to the characteristics of poster style given by the PBO essay: a bold design--check; a flat, two-dimensional look--check; limited color scheme--check, although 5 colors is in the upper reaches for a book cover; use of the cloth color as part of the image--check; a figural or narrative scene--check to both; stylized features--check; and close integration of image and text/typeface--check. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Though the poster style came late to American art and even later to American book covers, it was very common by the turn of the century and even more prevalent in the early 1900s. Many artists adopted it, at least for some of their designs, and for some it seems to be their preferred style. Our collection contains many examples of this style. We are now beginning to do some data cleanup and will begin to add "theme" and/or style headings to make it possible to search for such aspects of the designs (don't try searching yet as nothing has been added, but we'll keep everyone updated on our progress). In the meantime, here are some illustrations of work from well known poster artists paired with one of their cover designs from the collection. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Will Bradley, 1868-1962</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ethel Reed, 1874-</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Blanche McManus, 1869-1935</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Louis Rhead, 1857-1926</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And many others such as Elisha Brown Bird, Decorative Designers, Frank Hazenplug, J.C. Leyendecker, Florence Lundborg, Amy Sacker, and Frank Berkeley Smith.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Today, posters from the 1890s are scarce and expensive. But designs from masters of poster art can also be seen on thousands of book covers. We hope you'll browse our collection for covers designed by your favorite poster artist. The only drawback to actually having some of these is that they're difficult to hang on the wall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Please
feel free to join in the Binding Club. No obligations, n</span></span><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">o dues.</span><span style="line-height: 17.12px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">But do send us </span><i style="line-height: 107%;">your</i><span style="line-height: 107%;"> choice for binding of the
month.</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">Tell us why you like it (“just
because” works for us).</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">And don’t forget
to visit our online collection at <a href="http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/tb1">American Publishers’ Trade Bindings</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(2) </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">Overland
Monthly, Nov. 1902, p. iv. Viewed online. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">(3) New York Times, Jan. 15, 1910. "Queries and Answers", p. 34. Viewed online.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">(4) A quick pause to admire the name "Penfield" for an artist. It's the same pleasure found in a fishmonger named "Salmon," or a dentist named "Toothaker." Imagine my joy when I found that Penfield studied under George de Forest Brush!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">(5) The Library of Congress has a large number of posters digitized. See in particular their Artist Posters collection at </span><a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/pos/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/pos/</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> All poster images are taken from this digital collection.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(6) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975. Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press, 1999.<br />(7) American art posters of the 1890s in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987, p. 51. Cited in Nancy Finlay’s essay, "American Posters and Publishing in the 1890s," which is particularly valuable for this context.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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