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Days off and other digressions : illustrated

Author Henry Van Dyke American
1907
Not on view
Dark blue cloth stamped in light green, light blue, white, and a large amount of gold image of a stylized garden, title and author stamped in gold; title, author, publisher, and stylized floral design stamped in gold on spine; top edge gilt. Signed MA [Margaret Armstrong].

Photographs of binding from Watson Library Digital Collections: https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll17/id/2157

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  • Title: Days off and other digressions : illustrated
  • Artist: Margaret Neilson Armstrong (American, New York 1867–1944 New York)
  • Author: Henry Van Dyke (American, Germantown, Pennsylvania 1852–1933 Princeton, New Jersey)
  • Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
  • Date: 1907
  • Geography: New York, New York
  • Dimensions: 322 pages, [8] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; Height: 7 7/8 in. (20 cm)
  • Object Number: Publishers Bindings 345
  • Curatorial Department: Thomas J. Watson Library

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