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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 …

Getting Acquainted With The Trees, John Horace Mcfarland, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Gorham Manufacturing Company Design Library

xi, 241 pages : illustrations. "Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Illustrated title-page. Illustrated from photographs by the author. Mount Pleasant Press, J. Horace McFarland Company, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania-- title page verso. Includes index and list of botanical names. Decorated cloth cover, dark green illustration of a tree on light green cloth, title and author embossed in gold. Written in ink on front endpaper: ""This book is the Property of Samuel Kirk & Son, Co."" [Baltimore, MD, Silversmiths] From the Gorham Design Library. Gift of Lenox Inc. Case binding."

The Pendleton Collection, Luke Vincent Lockwood

Books

This book has been published by the Rhode Island School of Design, at the request of the late Charles L. Pendleton, of Providence, Rhode Island, and as a fitting appreciation of his gift of this splendid collection, which is about to be placed in a fire-proof house especially designed for its housing, where it will be open to the public.

This book is essentially a catalogue of the collection, and takes up the description of the pieces in the order of their arrangement in the rooms. It has been the aim of the author, however, to make this volume something …

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.

Old Time Gardens, Alice Morse Earle, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Landscape Architecture

xviii, 489 pages : illus., leaves of plates. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes index. Stamped, color illustration on cover. c. 1 Lowthorpe Collection.

Amos Judd, John Ames Mitchell, Arthur Ignatius, Amy Richards, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Merrymount Press

[3], 251, [1] pages : [8] color plates. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Colored title vignette. "D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston"--page [252]. Full cover emboss decoration in gold on cover. Cover designer, Amy Richards. Bookseller's label inside back cover: Brentano's Booksellers & Stationers, Union Square, New York. Gift of Selma Ordewer, in memory of Daniel Berkeley Bianchi.

The Ruling Passion: Tales Of Nature And Human Nature, Henry Van Dyke, Clark W. Appleton, Margaret Armstrong, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Merrymount Press

x, 295, [1] pages : frontispiece, plates. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. CONTENTS: A lover of music -- The reward of virtue -- A brave heart -- The gentle life -- A friend of justice -- The white blot -- A year of nobility --The keeper of the light. NOTE Title page printed in red and black. Blue cloth binding, decorative pattern emboss in green and gold. Decorated cloth binding by Margaret Armstrong. Bookseller's label inside front cover: F. Loeser & Co., Brooklyn, Book Store. This copy withdrawn from the …

The Rossettis : Dante Gabriel And Christina, Elisabeth Luther Cary, Special Collections, Fleet Library, Fleet Library

Art History

xi, 310 pages : frontispiece, plates, ports. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. xi, 310 pages : frontispiece, plates, ports. "Christina Rossetti's poems": pages 282-287. Chronological list of paintings and drawings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti: pages 288-301. "List of the more important writings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti": pages 277-281.

Spiegel Das Kätzchen. Ein Maerchen. Feldpostausgabe., Special Collections, Fleet Library

Miniature Books

Box 1 : Book 19. Part of The Stearns, Beede, Jencks Collection of Miniature Books. 2 boxes. miniature books; slipcases, boxes and metal cases; miniature magnifying lenses; miniature bookcases; book collecting bibliographies and periodicals; research materials; correspondence; card file. SUMMARY Emma Owens Stearns began collecting miniature books in the late 19th century and passed her passion for these treasures on to her daughter Virginia Stearns Beede. Virginia continued to add to this collection and passed it on to her daughter Anne Beede Jencks. In 2011 Anne Jencks donated this collection of miniature books, now numbering approximately 382 volumes, to the …

Bohemian Paris Of To-Day, W. C. Morrow, Edward Cucuel, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

321 p. : ill. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Title vignette. From the Library of Chester L. Dodge, Class of 1902

The Old Gentleman Of The Black Stock, Thomas Nelson Page, Howard Chandler Christy, Margaret Armstrong, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Merrymount Press

viii, 169 pages, [7] leaves of plates : color illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Color illustration on title page. "D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston"--Colophon. Light blue cloth cover with decoration emboss in gold, mounted label on cover with silhouette cameos in black and with gold lettering. Decorated cloth binding signed by the designer: MA [i.e. Margaret Armstrong]. Front cover detached from textblock. Gift of Selma Ordewer, in memory of Daniel Berkeley Bianchi.

Series Ii. Gorham Scrapbook Of Illustrations, Gorham Manufacturing Company, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Gorham Manufacturing Company Design Library

SP4.0, Series II. Books, Box 4. Scrapbook of design inspirations compiled by Gorham Manufacturing Company. Gorham Manufacturing Company records, 1890-2008 RIAMCO finding aid

Kate Greenaway's Alphabet, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Miniature Books

Box 1 : Book 11. Part of The Stearns, Beede, Jencks Collection of Miniature Books. 2 boxes. miniature books; slipcases, boxes and metal cases; miniature magnifying lenses; miniature bookcases; book collecting bibliographies and periodicals; research materials; correspondence; card file. SUMMARY Emma Owens Stearns began collecting miniature books in the late 19th century and passed her passion for these treasures on to her daughter Virginia Stearns Beede. Virginia continued to add to this collection and passed it on to her daughter Anne Beede Jencks. In 2011 Anne Jencks donated this collection of miniature books, now numbering approximately 382 volumes, to the …

Series Ii. Gorham Pattern Book Of Silverware, Gorham Manufacturing Company, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Gorham Manufacturing Company Design Library

SP4.0, Series II. Books, Box 4. Pattern Book of Silverware rubbings. Gorham Manufacturing Company records, 1890-2008. RIAMCO finding aid

Poems Of Cabin And Field, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

125 pages : frontispiece, illustrations, portrait. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Illustrated with photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club and decorations by Alice Morse. CONTENTS: The deserted plantation -- Hunting song -- Little brown baby -- Chris'mus is a-comin' -- Signs of the times -- Time to tinker 'round -- Lullaby -- A banjo song. "University Press, John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A."--title page verso. All pages in printer's decorative frame designed by Alice Morse. Decorated publisher's cloth binding designed by Alice Morse. Green cloth with plant stems printed …