Letters of Sarah Wyman Whitman
Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1907. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover. Top edge gilt. Calf spine with gilt lettering over green paper boards with git titles and design. ix, [1] pages, 1 leaf, 254 pages, 1. 20 cm. G+. Scuffing along the spine gutters. Head of spine has a finger nail sized chip at the center. Bumping and scuffing at tail. Board corners are bumped with some paper loss worst being an almost one inch long strip along front bottom fore edge corner. Despite the exteror issues binding is strong and the text block is clean, bright and unmarked. Item #211418
Sarah de St. Prix Wyman Whitman (1842–1904) was an American stained glass artist, painter, and book cover designer. Successful at a time when few women had professional art careers, she founded her own firm, Lily Glass Works. Her stained glass windows are found in churches and colleges throughout the northeastern United States. As a member of the board of the Harvard University "Annex," she helped to found Radcliffe College. -- Wikipedia
Bruce Rogers (May 14, 1870 – May 21, 1957) was an American typographer and type designer, acclaimed by some as among the greatest book designers of the twentieth century.[1] Rogers was known for his "allusive" typography, rejecting modernism, seldom using asymmetrical arrangements, rarely using sans serif type faces, often favoring faces such as Bell (at the time known only as Brimmer), Caslon, his own Montaigne, a Jensonian precursor to his masterpiece of type design Centaur. His books can fetch high sums at auction. -- Wikipedia.
OCLC: 2628563
Price: $450.00