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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. …