Book Information:
| Title | Friar Jerome's Beautiful Book |
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| Subtitle | |
| Author | Aldrich, Thomas Bailey |
| Publisher | Riverside Press |
| Publish Date | 1896 |
| ISBN | |
| Pages | 0 |
| Binding | Hardcover |
| Notes | [Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1896]., 1896. Narrow octavo. Full publisher's medium brown calf, stamped pictorially in darker brown, ribbon ties. Printed in black and red. Endsheets darkened, otherwise an unusually nice copy in pictorial dust jacket with shallow loss around the crown of the spine and adjacent top edge. First trade edition in this format, featuring illustrations and decorations by W.D. Hadaway. This copy has been quite attractively illuminated in color, with gold highlighting, and signed on the colophon: "Illuminated by Anna M. Lessman." There were also 275 copies on large paper. A popular example of certain tendencies in 1890s American book arts. This work has been tentatively recognized as one of the first books designed by Bruce Rogers after his arrival at the Riverside Press. The identity of the illuminator remains unsure, though her name does turn up on the passenger list of the Cunard Carpathian on the cruise coincident with the loss of the Titanic. FINLAY 31. TANSELLE 96.50. |
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| TRRF Call No. | DA-00004R |
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