The Unknown Quantity: A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales

Multiple artists/makers

1912

Not on view

Artwork Details

Title: The Unknown Quantity: A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales
Artist: Binding designed by Margaret Neilson Armstrong (American, New York 1867–1944 New York)
Author: Henry Van Dyke (American, Germantown, Pennsylvania 1852–1933 Princeton, New Jersey)
Illustrator: Charles Shepard Chapman (American, Morristown, New Jersey 1879–1962 Leonia, New Jersey)
Illustrator: [Alfred] Garth Jones (British, Manchester, 1872–ca. 1932)
Illustrator: Sigismund de Ivanowski (American (born Ukraine) Kurylowka 1875–1944 Westmoreland, New Hampshire)
Illustrator: Paul Julien Meylan (American (born Switzerland), Canton of Vaud 1882–1962 Stamford, Connecticut)
Illustrator: Blendon Reed Campbell (American, St. Louis, Missouri 1872–1969 Brandenton, Florida)
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons (New York, NY)
Date: 1912
Medium: illustrations: photomechanical reproductions of watercolors
Dimensions: 7 11/16 x 5 x 1 3/16 in. (19.5 x 12.7 x 3 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Constance C. McPhee, 2012
Object Number: 2012.128.13
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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