Blind Agnese
Title
Blind Agnese
Creator
Cecilia Caddell, book's author
Publisher
New York: P.J. Kenedy
Date
1888
Contributor
Madison Theodore researched and wrote the event description in 2018.
Description
For a description of the book, please click on the image of the event label/description or scroll to the bottom of the page for the section entitled "Text" for a transcription of the attached document.
Subject
Literature / Children's Literature
Identifier
SPECIAL PR4399 .C18 B6 1888
Language
English, book's contents
English, event description
English, event description
Relation
This book has another record in the "Beautiful Books" Lobby Display Collection.
To see this book on November 15, 2018 in the "Event Photographs" Collection, please go here [Photograph of Books] 05451, here [Photograph of Books] 05457, and here [Photograph of Books] IMG_0602.
To see this book on November 15, 2018 in the "Event Photographs" Collection, please go here [Photograph of Books] 05451, here [Photograph of Books] 05457, and here [Photograph of Books] IMG_0602.
Text
BLIND AGNESE | CECILIA CADDELL | NEW YORK: P.J KENEDY | 1888
Blind Agnese has dark navy blue cloth covers with gilt and red stamped flowers on the front cover and the spine. The front cover has an abstract headpiece stamped in red, as well as two abstract borders along the bottom stamped in red and gilt. The title on the front cover is in the center of a floral patterned gilt rectangle. The spine features the same red and gold, but the patterns and flowers are different. It also features a gilt label around the title in navy blue, which is just the fabric underneath the gold leaf. The author’s name is stamped in gold underneath the faux title label. Stylistically, this book has a lot of similarities to Lucile.
The endpapers are light blue floral print on an off-white background. Each page of the book features a double line border in black, and there are no illustrations. Throughout the book the printing is broken, evidence that either the plates of type were wearing out, or the type was not properly inked prior to printing.
Blind Agnese is one of 3,000 volumes donated by Mrs. Marifrances Engelhardt after Hurricane Matthew (2016) flooded her home. About 240 books are in Special Collections. During WWII she served in Spain in the diplomatic corps and married a well-known foreign correspondent, through whom she met Ernest Hemingway and Orson Wells. Sometime after her second marriage she settled in St. Augustine. When shown a book from her collection, despite her advanced years, she remembered who in her family owned it or gave it to her, and whether or not she enjoyed reading it. Mrs. Engelhardt died on April 18, 2017.
Blind Agnese has dark navy blue cloth covers with gilt and red stamped flowers on the front cover and the spine. The front cover has an abstract headpiece stamped in red, as well as two abstract borders along the bottom stamped in red and gilt. The title on the front cover is in the center of a floral patterned gilt rectangle. The spine features the same red and gold, but the patterns and flowers are different. It also features a gilt label around the title in navy blue, which is just the fabric underneath the gold leaf. The author’s name is stamped in gold underneath the faux title label. Stylistically, this book has a lot of similarities to Lucile.
The endpapers are light blue floral print on an off-white background. Each page of the book features a double line border in black, and there are no illustrations. Throughout the book the printing is broken, evidence that either the plates of type were wearing out, or the type was not properly inked prior to printing.
Blind Agnese is one of 3,000 volumes donated by Mrs. Marifrances Engelhardt after Hurricane Matthew (2016) flooded her home. About 240 books are in Special Collections. During WWII she served in Spain in the diplomatic corps and married a well-known foreign correspondent, through whom she met Ernest Hemingway and Orson Wells. Sometime after her second marriage she settled in St. Augustine. When shown a book from her collection, despite her advanced years, she remembered who in her family owned it or gave it to her, and whether or not she enjoyed reading it. Mrs. Engelhardt died on April 18, 2017.
Original Format
Book / Unpublished Print Document
Collection
Citation
Cecilia Caddell, book's author, “Blind Agnese,” Beautiful Books in Flagler College's Special Collections, accessed May 15, 2024, https://beautifulbooks.omeka.net/items/show/115.