An island garden / by Celia Thaxter ; with pictures and illuminations by Childe Hassam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894, author.

Contributor:

Hassam, Childe, 1859-1935, illustrator.

Whitman, Sarah, binding designer.

James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., publisher.

Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Celia Thaxter's Garden (Appledore Island, Me.).

Gardens--Maine--Celia Thaxter's Garden (Appledore Island).

Gardens.

Flower gardening--Maine--Pictorial works.

Flower gardening.

Isles of Shoals (Me. and N.H.)--Description and travel.

Isles of Shoals (Me. and N.H.).

Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894.

Thaxter, Celia.

Travel.

Maine.

Maine--Celia Thaxter's Garden (Appledore Island).

United States--Isles of Shoals.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Sturge, F. A. (Francis Albright), 1845-1925 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Brown, F. Arber (Francis Arber), 1851-1911 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Folsom, Marion C. (Marion Colby), 1899-1999 (label) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix, [1], 126 pages, [13] leaves of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm

Manufacture:

[Cambridge, Massachusetts] : The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. : Printed by H.O. Houghton & Company.

Place of Publication:

London : Osgood, McIlvaine & Co. 45 Albemarle Street,W., MDCCCXCIV [1894]

Notes:

Twelve full-page chromolithographs (each with printed tissue guard) after watercolors by Childe Hassam with smaller color decorations for chapter heads, title and half titles.

Printer statement from verso of title leaf.

Local Notes:

Issued in decorated white cloth stamped in gilt with design of stylized poppies within a triple rule by Sarah Whitman; untrimmed fore-edges and gilt tops.

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has on front free endpaper dated 19th-century manuscript inscription ("F.A. Sturge. from his affec brother. F. arber Brown. Sept. 1.- 1900") recording to gift of this volume to Francis Albright Sturge (1845-1925) from his brother-in-law Francis Arber Brown (1851-1911).

Schimmel Collection copy has on front free endpaper address label ("Mrs. Marion C. Folsom 85 Fieldstone Road Westwood, Massachusetts") of Marion Colby Folson (1899-1999).

OCLC:

1298889725