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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.

The Lotus, 1910, Risd Archives, Center For Student Involvement (Csi)

RISD Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

Sterling Silver Knives, Forks And Spoons, Reed & Barton, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Catalogs

48 pages : illustrations. Catalogue ; No. 34 Catalogue (Reed & Barton) ; no. 34. Includes prices. Includes index (page 48). Paper cover, stapled. Purchased from the V. Stephen Vaughan Collection.

The Lotus, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

The 1910 yearbook for Rhode Island School of Design, called The Lotus, included hand drawn illustrations, student-submitted entries, descriptions of each department in the school, lists of students and faculty, descriptions of popular social events, and advertisements. Also included was a calendar of events for the school year. Poems and short stories were also in this yearbook.

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.

Alaska-Yukon-Pacific World's Fair Exposition Seattle (1909) Ceramic Plate, Adams, Tunstall England, Special Collections, Fleet Library

World's Fairs

Ceramic plate produced for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (Seattle 1909), pottery mark on back: Adams Tunstall, England, made for The Bon Marché, Seattle, Washington. Features the Exposition seal, designed by Adelaide Hanscom. Adelaide described her winning event seal logo: The figure to the right typifies the Pacific Slope with right hand extended in welcome, and the left holding a train of cars, representing commerce by land. The figure to the left represents the Orient, and the ship in her hand represents commerce by sea. The central figure in white is that of Alaska, the white representing the North and the nuggets …

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" …

Earring Thinking, Kate Connell, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Fashion

4 unnumbered pages (single folded sheet), 16 unnumbered plates (some folded) : color illustrations, samples, 18 cm. Title from portfolio. In portfolio (22 x 14 x 3 cm). Describes the process of designing, making and curating for the intimate, magnetic and highly visible place that earrings occupy."-- page [1]. Mounted inside the booklet is a sealed paper envelope containg ear wires, jump rings, safety pins, and a sample paper cutout. Plates include color illustrations of jewelry pieces that can be cutout and mounted with wires to create an earring. Englehart C. Ostby Fund.

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 …

The Conspicuous Condom, Richard Martin, Marvin Hoshino, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Fashion

[xviii], 27, [5] pages : illustrations. 15 cm. "Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Fashion Institute of Technology, September 5-12, 1989." Designer: Marvin Hoshino. Color initial on page [i]. Stapled, yellow paper cover. Gift of Madelyn Shaw.

Robes & Gouaches Simultanés, 1925, Sonia Delaunay, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Fashion

48 pages : chiefly illustrations (black and white), portraits, "L'art et le corps, rythmes-couleurs en mouvement". 22 x 30 cm. A collection of the artist's drawings related to clothing and costume design. Illustrated title page In French. Black and white printing, different color papers, mostly white, but including blue, green, orange-red. French fold paper. Adhesive binding, paper cover. Stains on title page and bottoms of following pages.

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.

La Semaine De Suzette., Joseph Porphyre Pinchon, Henri Gautier, Éditions Gautier-Languereau, Imprimerie De Sceaux, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Comics

Volumes : illustrations (some color). "Sceaux. Imprimerie Charaire." Includes the comic strip Bécassine by Joseph-Porphyre Pinchon. Bound with printed title page. "Cinquieme Annee [Fifth annual] Fevrier 1909-Fevrier 1910" Illustrated French children's magazine for girls. Bound together, green cloth on spine, with gold stamping. Marbled paper on boards.

Eugene Field Reader, Alice Harris, Frank W. Cooley, Eugene Field, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

4 preliminary leaves, 96 pages : color illustrations, 20 cm. Illustrated collection of the poems of Eugene Fields. Illustrated title page in color. Case binding, black stamp lettering, illustration stamped in blue and black. Gift of the Estate of Eleanor Fayerweather. Inscribed to Eleanor from Dorothy K., New York, May 1909.

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."

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. …

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 …

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 …

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.

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