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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 …

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

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.

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.

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 …

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.

Lucile Frizzelle's Scrapbook Ii, 1898-1902, Lucile Frizzelle

Scrapbooks

Lucile Frizzelle attended Ward Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee for three years, beginning in 1898. Her scrapbook contains information about her fellow students, teachers, and experiences at the school. This scrapbook is accompanied by a first book, 2023.6.1.

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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.

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

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 …

The Golden Age, Kenneth Grahame, Maxfield Parrish, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

252 p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Illustrated title page and lining papers. Stamped cover illustration, also designed by Parrish. Each plate accompanied by descriptive cover sheet. The adventures of five brothers and sisters growing up in rural England in the late nineteenth century. c. 1 Gift of the Estate of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth ; c. 2 Gift of Richard Brown Baker (Circulates)

How To Know The Ferns : A Guide To The Names, Haunts, And Habits Of Our Common Ferns, Frances Theodora Parsons (Mrs. William Starr Dana), Marion Satterlee, Alice Josephine Smith, Special Collections

Landscape Architecture

xiv, 215 p. : ill., front. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes indexes. Gift of the Estate of Eleanor M. Phillips

Home Life In Colonial Days, Alice Morse Earle, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

xvi, 470 pages, [17] pages of plates : illus. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. CONTENTS: Homes of the colonists -- The light of other days -- The kitchen fireside -- The serving of meals -- Food from forest and sea -- Indian corn -- Meat and drink -- Flax culture and spinning -- Wool culture and spinning, with a postscript on cotton -- Hand-weaving -- Girls' occupations -- Dress of the colonists -- Jack-knife industries -- Travel, transportation, and taverns -- Sunday in the colonies -- Old-time flower gardens. The …

Lucile Frizzelle's Scrapbook I, 1898-1902, Lucile Frizzelle

Scrapbooks

Lucile Frizzelle attended Ward Seminary in Nashville Tennessee for three years, beginning in 1898. Her scrapbook contains information about her fellow students, teachers, and experiences at the school. This scrapbook is accompanied by a second book, 2023.6.2.

The Yellow Book Volume 13, Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, Mabel Syrett, Special Collections, Fleet Library

The Yellow Book

1 of 13 volumes : illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. "An Illustrated Quarterly" Imprint varies. Oct. 1896-Apr. 1897: London ; New York : J. Lane. Co-founded and illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. Nelson, J.G. Checklist of early Bodley Head books, ǂc 1894.11 Binding design for Vols. I-V probably by Aubrey Beardsley, binding design for Vol. VII by J.D. Mackenzie, binding design for Vol. VIII by D.Y. Cameron, binding design for Vol. IX by Mrs. Percy (Mabel) Dearmer, binding design for Vol. X by J. Illingsworth Kay, binding design for Vol. …

The Yellow Book Volume 12, Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, Ethel Reed, Special Collections, Fleet Library

The Yellow Book

1 of 13 volumes : illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. "An Illustrated Quarterly" Imprint varies. Oct. 1896-Apr. 1897: London ; New York : J. Lane. Co-founded and illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. Nelson, J.G. Checklist of early Bodley Head books, ǂc 1894.11 Binding design for Vols. I-V probably by Aubrey Beardsley, binding design for Vol. VII by J.D. Mackenzie, binding design for Vol. VIII by D.Y. Cameron, binding design for Vol. IX by Mrs. Percy (Mabel) Dearmer, binding design for Vol. X by J. Illingsworth Kay, binding design for Vol. …

The Yellow Book Volume 11, Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, Nellie Syrett, Special Collections, Fleet Library

The Yellow Book

1 of 13 volumes : illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. "An Illustrated Quarterly" Imprint varies. Oct. 1896-Apr. 1897: London ; New York : J. Lane. Co-founded and illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. Nelson, J.G. Checklist of early Bodley Head books, ǂc 1894.11 Binding design for Vols. I-V probably by Aubrey Beardsley, binding design for Vol. VII by J.D. Mackenzie, binding design for Vol. VIII by D.Y. Cameron, binding design for Vol. IX by Mrs. Percy (Mabel) Dearmer, binding design for Vol. X by J. Illingsworth Kay, binding design for Vol. …

The Yellow Book Volume 10, Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, J. Illingsworth Kay, Special Collections, Fleet Library

The Yellow Book

1 of 13 volumes : illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. "An Illustrated Quarterly" Imprint varies. Oct. 1896-Apr. 1897: London ; New York : J. Lane. Co-founded and illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. Nelson, J.G. Checklist of early Bodley Head books, ǂc 1894.11 Binding design for Vols. I-V probably by Aubrey Beardsley, binding design for Vol. VII by J.D. Mackenzie, binding design for Vol. VIII by D.Y. Cameron, binding design for Vol. IX by Mrs. Percy (Mabel) Dearmer, binding design for Vol. X by J. Illingsworth Kay, binding design for Vol. …

The Yellow Book Volume 9, Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, Mabel Dearmer, Special Collections, Fleet Library

The Yellow Book

1 of 13 volumes : illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. "An Illustrated Quarterly" Imprint varies. Oct. 1896-Apr. 1897: London ; New York : J. Lane. Co-founded and illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. Nelson, J.G. Checklist of early Bodley Head books, ǂc 1894.11 Binding design for Vols. I-V probably by Aubrey Beardsley, binding design for Vol. VII by J.D. Mackenzie, binding design for Vol. VIII by D.Y. Cameron, binding design for Vol. IX by Mrs. Percy (Mabel) Dearmer, binding design for Vol. X by J. Illingsworth Kay, binding design for Vol. …

The Yellow Book Volume 8, Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, David Young Cameron, Special Collections, Fleet Library

The Yellow Book

1 of 13 volumes : illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. "An Illustrated Quarterly" Imprint varies. Oct. 1896-Apr. 1897: London ; New York : J. Lane. Co-founded and illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. Nelson, J.G. Checklist of early Bodley Head books, ǂc 1894.11 Binding design for Vols. I-V probably by Aubrey Beardsley, binding design for Vol. VII by J.D. Mackenzie, binding design for Vol. VIII by D.Y. Cameron, binding design for Vol. IX by Mrs. Percy (Mabel) Dearmer, binding design for Vol. X by J. Illingsworth Kay, binding design for Vol. …

The Yellow Book Volume 7, Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, J. D. Mackenzie, Special Collections, Fleet Library

The Yellow Book

1 of 13 volumes : illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. "An Illustrated Quarterly" Imprint varies. Oct. 1896-Apr. 1897: London ; New York : J. Lane. Co-founded and illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. Nelson, J.G. Checklist of early Bodley Head books, ǂc 1894.11 Binding design for Vols. I-V probably by Aubrey Beardsley, binding design for Vol. VII by J.D. Mackenzie, binding design for Vol. VIII by D.Y. Cameron, binding design for Vol. IX by Mrs. Percy (Mabel) Dearmer, binding design for Vol. X by J. Illingsworth Kay, binding design for Vol. …