[Fine Binding | Arts & Crafts] The Home Book of Verse Other paper label soiled

paper label soiled

but impractical

with the four corners finished with a similar inlaid oval & border design (in purple

and reviewer of the volume for The Magazine of Art)

some spotting to endpapers

[Fine Binding | Arts & Crafts] The Home Book of Verse Other paper label soiledStevenson, Burton Egbert. The Home Book of Verse [2 volumes]. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1937. Bound in red orange morocco with covers featuring a geometric border design of 16 squares & rectangles with gilt dots in each corner. Five bands to spine with title to second compartment and remaining compartments ruled in gilt with three dots to each corner. Initials of "M. D. B." to bottom of the spine, though unknown in this was the owner or