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One Foot Up, The Other Foot Down, Jessie Willcox Smith, Colgate & Company, Dodd, Meade & Company, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

7 of a set of 12 booklets : illustrations (some color); 9 x 14 cm. Title adapted from covers. 1 of a set of 12 nursery rhyme pamphlets with cover designs and text illustrations adapted from the Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., c1914). Part of a Colgate promotional campaign? Good Housekeeping Magazine copyright notice on front covers. Color illustrations on cover; b&w in text. Each booklet is eight numbered pages. Illustrated advertisement for Colgate toothpaste on the pages [2] & [3] of covers. SET CONTENTS: Little Bo Peep -- Jack and Jill went up …

Ring Around A Rosie, Jessie Willcox Smith, Colgate & Company, Dodd, Meade & Company, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

10 of a set of 12 booklets : illustrations (some color); 9 x 14 cm. Title adapted from covers. 1 of a set of 12 nursery rhyme pamphlets with cover designs and text illustrations adapted from the Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., c1914). Part of a Colgate promotional campaign? Good Housekeeping Magazine copyright notice on front covers. Color illustrations on cover; b&w in text. Each booklet is eight numbered pages. Illustrated advertisement for Colgate toothpaste on the pages [2] & [3] of covers. SET CONTENTS: Little Bo Peep -- Jack and Jill went up …

Jack And Jill Went Up The Hill, Jessie Willcox Smith, Colgate & Company, Dodd, Meade & Company, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

3 of a set of 12 booklets : illustrations (some color); 9 x 14 cm. Title adapted from covers. 1 of a set of 12 nursery rhyme pamphlets with cover designs and text illustrations adapted from the Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., c1914). Part of a Colgate promotional campaign? Good Housekeeping Magazine copyright notice on front covers. Color illustrations on cover; b&w in text. Each booklet is eight numbered pages. Illustrated advertisement for Colgate toothpaste on the pages [2] & [3] of covers. SET CONTENTS: Little Bo Peep -- Jack and Jill went up …

Hush-A-Bye-Baby On The Tree Top, Jessie Willcox Smith, Colgate & Company, Dodd, Meade & Company, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

2 of a set of 12 booklets : illustrations (some color); 9 x 14 cm. Title adapted from covers. 1 of a set of 12 nursery rhyme pamphlets with cover designs and text illustrations adapted from the Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., c1914). Part of a Colgate promotional campaign? Good Housekeeping Magazine copyright notice on front covers. Color illustrations on cover; b&w in text. Each booklet is eight numbered pages. Illustrated advertisement for Colgate toothpaste on the pages [2] & [3] of covers. SET CONTENTS: Little Bo Peep -- Jack and Jill went up …

East Of The Sun And West Of The Moon; Norske Folke-Eventyr. English. Selections, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Kay Rasmus Nielsen, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

206 pages, [25] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color). "Selected from the Norske folkeeventyr of Asbjörnson and Moe; most stories in this book originally appeared in Sir G.W. Dasent's Popular tales from the Norse, cf. Preface, pages [1-2]. Illustrated title page; end papers illustrated in black and gold. CONTENTS East of the sun and west of the moon -- The blue belt -- Prince Lindworm -- The lassie and her godmother -- The husband who was to mind the house -- The lad who went to the North Wind -- The three princesses of Whiteland -- Soria Moria Castle …

The Dutch Colonial House : Its Origin, Design, Modern Plan And Construction, Aymar Embury Ii, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Architecture

iv, 108 pages, [64] pages of plates : frontispiece, illus., plans. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. The country house library; a series of architectural books for the layman "Illustrated with photographs of old examples and American adaptations of the style" The genesis of the style -- Materials -- The treatment of the roof -- Doors and windows -- Plan -- The treatment of principal rooms -- Furniture and decoration. Decorated cloth cover binding illustrated with large vignette of a house, and a partial view of the lawn with two cypress …

A Child's Book Of Old Verses, Jessie Willcox Smith

Illustration

ix, 124 pages, [10] leaves of plates : illus. (some color). Illustrated lining-papers. Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Wetherell. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.

The Holy Land, Robert Hitchens, Jules Guerin, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

x, 302 pages : color frontispiece, illustrations, plates (some color). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Title page within ornamental border, printed in black and brown, text page headers also printed in brown. Bound in green publisher's illustrated cloth binding with a stamped image in green, red, blue and gilt on the front cover, representing a view of Nazareth from an illustration by Jules Guerin. The spine has the title and author in gilt with a frame around the title. CONTENTS: Baalbec, the town of the sun -- The spell of …

Royal Palaces And Parks Of France, Francis [Pseud.] Miltoun, Blanche Mcmanus, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Architecture

viii, 371 p., [41] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), plans. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes index. Includes illustrated lining papers.

Italian Hours, Henery James, Joseph Pennell, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

ix, 504 pages, [32] color plates. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. "The chapters of which this volume is composed have with few exceptions already been collected." -Preface.

Flower Of The Dusk, Myrtle Reed, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

iv, 341 pages : color frontispiece illustration. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Decorated cloth binding signed by the designer: MA [Margaret Armstrong]. Lilac color cloth binding, lettering and illustration emboss in white and gold. Title page and text pages printed in black and red, all pages in frames. Top edge of text block gold gilt. Inside front cover, large bookplate of Gladys and Herbert Clark. Library copy printed October 1910. Case binding.

The Hanging Of The Crane, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Arthur Ignatius Keller, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

30 ℓ. : 13 leaves of plates. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Title in green and black within ornamental border; decorations; initials in color. "Illustrations by Arthur I. Keller. Designs by Florence W. Swan." Book in poor condition, loose pages, in binder.

The Rivals, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Brander Matthews, M. Power O'Malley, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Merrymount Press

xxxviii, 131 pages, [18] leaves of plates : frontispiece (hand colored), plates. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. A play. Green cloth binding, decorations and lettering stamped in gold, signed by the designer: M.A. [Margaret Armstrong]. "Composition and electrotype plates by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston"--Title page verso. Publishers paper dustjacket in mylar cover. Gift of Selma Ordewer, in memory of Daniel Berkeley Bianchi.

Historic Buildings Of America, Esther Singleton, Alice Morse, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Architecture

xiv, 341 pages, 48 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Forty seven buildings are described, largely in Massachusetts, with some more in other New England and Mid-Atlantic States, one in California, two in South Carolina, and several in both Canada and Mexico. CONTENTS: The Capitol, Washington / Joseph B. Varnum -- Within the Capitol / Charles Dickens -- Arlington, Virginia / Iza Duffus Hardy -- Carpenter's Hall / Benson J. Lossing -- The Cradock House, Medford / Samuel Adams Drake -- Fraunces Tavern / William …

The World's Christmas Tree, Charles E. Jefferson, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Merrymount Press

2 p. ℓ., 44, [1] pages. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. CONTENTS: The World's Christmas Tree -- How certain men long ago were led to the King. "Composition and electrotype plates by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston"--title page verso. Title page printed in red and black, red border frame. Written in ink, front endpage: Helen Cochran, Christmas 1906. Green book cloth binding, decoration, title, author stamped in gold and white on cover. Color printed card (7 x 43/4 in.), inside back cover. Printed on one side, poem, "Peace" …

This Is A Book, Kevin Ho, Special Collections, Fleet Library

5th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2019

No abstract provided.

59 Dreams: A Nocturnal Year, Teresa Pankratz, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations. Edition of 250 numbered copies signed by the artist. "This book documents my year of dreaming: 59 portals into recalled nocturnal activities, witnessing a dream-self performing grand, heroic amd sometimes incomprehensible acts--hours and hours of accumulated living time, previously unaccounted for."--Introduction. "I wanted to make an affordable limited edition artists' book. I designed 59 Dreams: A Nocturnal Year to hold my original drawings and text--and be this book. It's custom printed and bound by Lowitz & Sons, Inc., Chicago, using Gil Sans Light on Mohawk Superfine ..."--Colophon. Perfect bound with French flaps and soft touch …

The Flood | Cinders Gallery Huge Box Set #6, Kelie Bowman, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

#15. 1 of 32 publications in the Cinders Gallery Huge Box Set #6. Cinders Gallery Huge Box Set #6 curated by Cinders Gallery, contains 32 individual artists' books and zines by various artists, produced between 2007-2014. Mediums include: inkjet, hand painting, silkscreen, photocopy, collage, digital print, photo, pencil, ink. Bindings include: hand sewn, stapled, pamphlet. CONTENTS 1. Illnesstrations / Mike Taylor -- 2. Who's Gonna Empty the Catbox??? / Mel Kadel and Travis Millard -- 3. 14 regular polygons approach a circle / Karl Larocca -- 4. Vehicles of the Ancients / Mike Pare -- 5. Black Hair / Chris …

Munsell Book Of Color: Defining, Explaining, And Illustrating The Fundamental Characteristics Of Color, Munsell Color (Firm), A. H. Munsell, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Color

42 pages, 26 color leaves of plates (some double) : illustrations ; 33cm ; Standard Edition. Preface signed: A.E.O. Munsell. Three "masks" laid in. Gift of Harris Equipment Fund. A revision and extension of "The atlas of the Munsell color system" by A.H. Munsell.

Mother Goose's Rhymes, Chimes, And Jingles : Or The Nursery Treasure., C. P. Heustis, Vincent L. Dill, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

24 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm Rhymes with pictures. Caption title: Rhymes, chimes, and jingles; by Mother Goose. Hand colored illustration on cover. Illustration on title page. Cover title: Rhymes, chimes and jingles. Charles P. Hestis was located 104 Nassau St., New York, between 1843 and 1853. New York City directories list Huestis both as an individual publishing at 104 Nassau, and as a member of Huestis & Cozans between 1850 and 1852. Vincent L. Dill was active as a stereotyper in New York between 1826 and 1863. Lacking back cover.

Italian Villas And Their Gardens, Edith Wharton, Maxfield Parrish, Decorative Designers, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Architecture

xii, 270 pages : illustrations (some color). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Title within ornamental border. "Published November, 1904"--title page verso. "Architects and landscape-gardeners mentioned": pages 253-266. Includes index. Cover board, bound in dark green cloth, has an elaborate image of lions on a pediment stamped in gold. Below the lions is a multi-colored image of a garden and fountain scene. Below this image is a wide gold ornamental base in which the dark green cloth contrasts with the title, author, illustrator information. Cover design by cover design by Decorative …

Cornelii Taciti De Vita Et Moribvs Ivlii Agricolae Liber : De Origine Sitv Moribvs Ac Popvlis Germanorvm Liber, De Oratoribvs Dialogvs., Tacitus, Sarah Whitman, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Merrymount Press

[49] pages. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Half-title: Cornelii Taciti opera minora. Edited by M.H. Morgan. Colophon: Huius libri, cui forma est binaria, exempla centum diligenter typis descripsit Magister Daniel Berkeley Vpdike in officina sua quae Hilarimontium dicitur, Bostoniae, in republica Massachusettensi, Martio mense anno salutis M.D.CCCC.IIII. De vita et moribvs Ivlii Agricolae liber -- De origine sitv moribvs ac popvlis Germanorvm liber -- De oratoribvs dialogvs. Edition of 100 copies. Binding, boards. Type, Merrymount. This copy includes an extra printing of the 2nd text page, printed on different paper. …

Japanese Art, Sadakichi Hartmann, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Art History

288 pages, [22] leaves of plates : color frontispiece, illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-281) and index. Decorated cloth binding in green, light green and gold, signed "FR"? Gold leaf on top of text block. Gift of the Estate of William E. Brigham

The Flower Beautiful, Calrence Moores Weed, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Landscape Architecture

x, 136 pages : illus., leaves of plates (incl. front). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Embossed color illustration on cover. Lowthorpe Collection.

The Cathedrals Of Northern France, Francis [Pseud.] Miltoun, Blanche Mcmanus, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Architecture

400 p., [9 ] leaves of plates : ill., plans, fold. map. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Cathedral series. Illustrated end-papers. Includes index. Gift of the Estate of L. Earle Rowe.

William Morris : Poet, Craftsman, Socialist, Elisabeth Luther Cary, Alice Cordelia Morse, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

ix, 296 pages : plates, portraits, facsimiles. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes bibliography: pages 269-290 and index.Front cover design signed, "MA" (Margaret Armstrong) Library copy is missing title page and frontispiece. Gift of Walter R. & John A. Callender in the name of Walter Callender.

The Blue Flower, Henry Van Dyke, Margaret Armstrong, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

vii, [1] pages, 2 leaves, 298, [1] pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : color frontispiece, plates. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. CONTENTS: The blue flower [from the German of Novalis] -- The source -- The mill -- Spy rock -- Wood-magic -- The other wise man -- A handful of clay -- The lost word -- The first Christmas-tree. Illustrations by J.R. Weguelin, Frank V. DuMond, Arthur Heming, Howard Pyle, and C.K. Linson. Title page printed in red and black. Decorated cloth binding, signed MA (Margaret Armstrong) Dark blue …

Sun Dials And Roses Of Yesterday, Alice Morse Earle, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

xxiii, 461 pages : ill., plates. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Title within green ornamental border. "The Rosicrucians": p. 366-389. Both copies in Lowthorpe Collection.

Four Addresses, Henry Lee Higginson, Sarah Wyman, Daniel Berkeley, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Merrymount Press

106 pages, [2] leaves of plates : ports. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022.

Les Fleurs Et Leurs Applications Décoratives, Émile-Allain Séguy, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Pochoir

2 volumes : 60 leaves of color plates ; 52 cm.

In portfolios. 30 plates each. Pochoir prints. Library has 2nd volume only and the following plates only: 31, 35-36, 39-40, 42-46, 51, 53-55, 57-58. Three plates have been trimmed, others in fragile condition.

Gift of Joan Brancale from the collection of Walter Mitschke.