Laurel Leaves. Original Poems, Stories and Essays

Laurel Leaves. Original Poems, Stories and Essays

Edited by William Fearing Gill

Henry W. Longfellow
John G. Whittier
Oliver Wendell Holmes
William Cullen Bryant
James Russel Lowell
J. T. Trowbridge
E.P. Whipple
T.W. Higginson
Louisa M. Alcott
Gail Hamilton
Harriet Prescott Spofford
H.H.
Louise Chandler Moulton
Nora Perry
Sarah Helen Whitman
Margaret J. Preston
Bayard Taylor
R.H. Stoddard
Alfred Tennyson
A.C. Swinburne
Charles Kingsley
Tom Taylor
Edward Eggleston
J.W. De Forrrest
George Cary Eggleston
William Ellery Channing
J. Boyle O'Reilly
William Winter
Edward S. Rand, Jr.
William Mathews
A. Bronson Alcott
Charles Dudley Warner
John Paul
William F. Gill
Frederic Viaux

Chicago / New York: Belford, Clarke, & Co.

1888

This book has blue calico-textured cloth covers over thick boards that have been sharply beveled. The back is otherwise plain with the stamping limited to the front cover and spine. The deep stamping as well as some of the flat areas have been painted in either black or with gold. The design is a two-tone border around the edge, surrounding an Egyptian-inspired design of mountains, sunrise, flowers, grasses, lily-pads, Ibises, and an Egyptian bust. The raised capitals of the title are also two-tone and a combination of geometric and floral designs. The spine mimics the front, but with many horizontal lines around the panel for the title, and a simplified version of the front cover design. The publisher's name is gilted at the bottom. This book shows some influence of the Arts and Crafts Movement.
The edges of the textblock were covered with gold leaf. The endpapers are a brown geometric repeating pattern on white that appears to be mass-produced. The paper is made of wood pulp.
The illustrations are a combination of plates and vignettes throughout the book. While the vignettes, including the raised capitals, look like steel-plate engravings, some of the plates look either steel or wood engravings.

Literature / Poetry

SPECIAL PN6014 .G4 1888

Hardcover book, 9 x 7.25 inches

English

This book has another record in the "Beautiful Books" Exhibit Collection.
This book can be seen in the photograph, Display Case 5.

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