Chosen poems

Publisher Charles Scribners and Sons American

1927

Not on view

Dark blue cloth with floral design in pale blue, orange and gold. Cloth binding and dust jacket signed by the designer: M.A. [i.e. Margaret Armstrong].

Frontispiece portrait of Van Dyke by Walter Appleton Clark with tissue guard and three additional illustrations. The last book in Armstrong's Van Dyke series, it is a collection of Van Dyke's poems chosen by his friends as their favorites. Armstrong created the cover of intertwined tulips for the first poem in the book: "When Tulips Bloom." -- vendor's description.

Photographs of binding from Watson Library Digital Collections https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll17/id/3991

Artwork Details

Overview

Title: Chosen poems
Artist: Margaret Neilson Armstrong (American, New York 1867–1944 New York)
Publisher: Charles Scribners and Sons
Author: Henry Van Dyke (American, Germantown, Pennsylvania 1852–1933 Princeton, New Jersey)
Date: 1927
Geography: New York, New York
Dimensions: x, 355 pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; Height: 7 7/8 in. (20 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Friends of the Thomas J. Watson Library
Object Number: Publishers Bindings 615

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