An English Woman's Love Letters
Title
An English Woman's Love Letters
Creator
Laurence Housman, book's author
Publisher
Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co.
Date
1901
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
Identifier
SPECIAL PR4809 .H18 E64 1901
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] 05455.
To see this book on November 15, 2018 in the "Event Photographs" Collection, please go here [Photograph of Books] 05455.
Text
AN ENGLISH WOMAN'S LOVE LETTERS | [LAURENCE HOUSMAN] | CHICAGO: W.B. CONKEY CO. | 1901
This book is a quarter-bound style of white cloth and white floral painted leather that has been patterned and lacquered. The leather has a pink and lilac floral design over a diaper pattern. The diaper pattern texture resembles small diamonds. There is a floral art deco design and the title stamped in gold on the white cloth near the spine on the front cover. The spine is a repeat of the pattern and includes the title and publisher stamped in gold. The back cover is plain, except for the floral leather. Due to the covers being white, they have become dirty, and now appear to be a creamy tan color. The top edge is gilt, but the fore-edge and bottom are plain.
The title page is highly embellished. It features the title, a quote, and the publisher’s name, all surrounded by metallic copper floral scrolling frame. The frontispiece is of a woman reading a letter, and the image is also surrounded by a metallic copper frame. There are three other plates throughout the book, and all the plates are printed on glossy paper, and they look like chalk style lithographs.
An English Woman’s Love Letters 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.
This book is a quarter-bound style of white cloth and white floral painted leather that has been patterned and lacquered. The leather has a pink and lilac floral design over a diaper pattern. The diaper pattern texture resembles small diamonds. There is a floral art deco design and the title stamped in gold on the white cloth near the spine on the front cover. The spine is a repeat of the pattern and includes the title and publisher stamped in gold. The back cover is plain, except for the floral leather. Due to the covers being white, they have become dirty, and now appear to be a creamy tan color. The top edge is gilt, but the fore-edge and bottom are plain.
The title page is highly embellished. It features the title, a quote, and the publisher’s name, all surrounded by metallic copper floral scrolling frame. The frontispiece is of a woman reading a letter, and the image is also surrounded by a metallic copper frame. There are three other plates throughout the book, and all the plates are printed on glossy paper, and they look like chalk style lithographs.
An English Woman’s Love Letters 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
Laurence Housman, book's author, “An English Woman's Love Letters,” Beautiful Books in Flagler College's Special Collections, accessed May 15, 2024, https://beautifulbooks.omeka.net/items/show/117.