Friday, March 7, 2014

1904 FRIENDSHIP OF ART BY BLISS CARMAN - ART NOUVEAU FINE BINDING

1904 FIRST EDITION

THE FRIENDSHIP OF ART
BY BLISS CARMAN

*** RARE ANTIQUE FIRST EDITION ~ BEAUTIFUL ART NOUVEAU FINE BINDING ~ FINE ARTS ~ PHILOSOPHY ~ INSTINCT ~ TRAINING ~ SPIRIT ~ SOUL ~ CRITICISM ~ REALISM ~ SANITY ~ TRADITION ~ SIMPLICITY ~ CIVILIZATION ~ BEAUTY ~ CLASSIC ***

Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1904.
Colonial Press, Boston, MA.

• First Edition - title page and copyright page dates match - August, 1904 - no additional printings listed
• measures about 7.5'' x 5''
• beautiful publisher's decorative cloth Art Nouveau fine binding
• ornate embossed stamping in gold gilt, green, and white
• textblock top edge gilt - deckle edges otherwise
• vignette title page
• frontispiece with tissue-guard



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