The ruling passion : tales of nature and human nature

Publisher Charles Scribners and Sons American

1907

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"Unsigned binding design by Margaret Armstrong in gold and green on smooth blue cloth of interwoven Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) branches with cones forming a central lens-shaped opening containing the titles; spine with titles surrounded by multiple repeat of the Hemlock cone motif; deckled edges and top edge gilt. Includes tinted frontispiece and 7 tinted black and white illustrations by Walter Appleton Clark. A series of eight stories about passions other than love than can have power over human life. One of twelve Van Dyke covers Armstrong designed between 1901 and 1927. Here, Armstrong uses the Eastern Hemlock, a common conifer in the forests and woods of the Northeast to allude to the forests and woods where the stories take place. A fine copy with an exceptionally bright cover; a contemporary penciled ownership on the ffep. Exceptionally scarce in this condition." -- Austin Abbey Rare Books.

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Artwork Details

Overview

Title: The ruling passion : tales of nature and human nature
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: 1907
Geography: New York, New York
Dimensions: x, 296 pages : color illustrations ; Height: 7 7/8 in. (20 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Friends of the Thomas J. Watson Library
Object Number: Publishers Bindings 918

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