The tent on the beach, and dramatic lyrics

Margaret Neilson Armstrong American

Publisher Houghton Mifflin Company American

Author John Greenleaf Whittier American

1899

Not on view

Green ungrained cloth binding with design stamped in gold of beach, shells, crabs, and irises; title, author, publisher stamped in gold on spine; top edge gilt; red coated endpapers. Signed M.A. [Margaret Armstrong].

Photographs of binding from Watson Library Digital Collections uhttps://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll17/id/2699

Artwork Details

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Title: The tent on the beach, and dramatic lyrics
Artist: Margaret Neilson Armstrong (American, New York 1867–1944 New York)
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston, Massachusetts)
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier (American, Haverhill, Massachusetts 1807–1892 Hampton Falls, New Hampshire)
Date: 1899
Geography: Boston, Massachusetts
Dimensions: 110 pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations ; Height: 7 7/8 in. (20 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Friends of the Thomas J. Watson Library
Object Number: Publishers Bindings 669

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