Laurel Leaves. Original Poems, Stories, and Essays

Laurel Leaves. Original Poems, Stories, and Essays

William Fearing Gill, book's editor

Chicago: Belford, Clarke and Co.

1888

Katherine Owens researched and wrote the event description in 2018.

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.

Literature / Poetry

SPECIAL PN6014 .G4 1888

English, book's contents
English, event description

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.

LAUREL LEAVES: ORIGINAL POEMS, STORIES, AND ESSAYS | WILLIAM FEARING GILL, ED. | CHICAGO: BELFORD, CLARKE, AND CO. | 1888

In a display highlighting beauty, it is hard to point to one book and say, “That is a beautiful book,” but we make so bold as to point to this one and say, “This is one of the most beautiful books in Special Collections.” Why? It has everything! The cover is both embossed and stamped, it has a deep blue cover against which the black paint and gold leaf can pop, classical elements, Eastlake style details, natural elements, “modern” elements, bevelled edges, A.E.G., fun typography, raised capitals, beautiful internal lay-out, attractive decorative endpapers, and lovely illustrations. These illustrations include the hallmarks of steel-plate engravings, especially the plate on p. 75 where both crosshatching for shadowing, and narrowed lines through curves are visible through the Lightscope.

Please do not drool on this book as you flip through! Oh, and please support the front cover, it is starting to make cracking noises when opened.

Book / Unpublished Print Document