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East of the Sun and West of the Moon; Norske folke-eventyr. English. Selections

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Kay Rasmus Nielsen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

206 pages, [25] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color). "Selected from the Norske folkeeventyr of Asbjörnson and Moe; most stories in this book originally appeared in Sir G.W. Dasent's Popular tales from the Norse, cf. Preface, pages [1-2]. Illustrated title page; end papers illustrated in black and gold. CONTENTS East of the sun and west of the moon -- The blue belt -- Prince Lindworm -- The lassie and her godmother -- The husband who was to mind the house -- The lad who went to the North Wind -- The three princesses of Whiteland -- Soria Moria Castle -- The giant who had no heart in his body -- The princess on the glass hill -- The widow's son -- The three billy goats gruff -- The three princesses in the blue mountain -- The cat on the Dovrefell -- One's own children are always prettiest. Translated by George Webbe Dasent. Gift of the Estate of William E. Brigham."
Government Gertie by One

Dorothy A. Bond, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

36 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations, 14 x 22 cm. Cover title. "Dedicated with sincere admiration to that perfectly swell girl --the government clerk"--Page 1 "Copyright 1944 by Dorothy A. Bond"--Page 1 "These cartoons good-naturedly satirize the harried life of the World War II-era government clerk. The women portrayed by Bond ... are overworked, bothered by their bosses, rushing to catch the train, stressed by their friendships and their relationships with their mothers, and stumbling in to work in the morning after a long night out. Bond's irreverent humor is obvious in every page, especially in her parody profiles of the types of women one finds working in clerk positions ..." --Michael .R. Thompson Rare Books info sheet. First printed Sept. 1944; Library has 3rd printing, Nov. 1944. Signed by the artist on page [1]. Stapled. Illustrated cover printed in orange-red and black.
Office Daze

Dorothy A. Bond, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

64 pages : illustrations, 14 x 22 cm. Cover title. "A Dorothy Bond Cartoon Book" "... only an office girl (with the soul of a jerk) could draw the humorous back-of-the-scenes in an office ... and now it's been done by one ... it is dedicated with my love and best wishes to my co-worker ... that really grand, hard-working person ... the office girl"-- page 1. "Copyright 1945 by Dorothy A. Bond"--page 1. Illustrated cover, printed in red and black. Stapled. On cover: Fifty cents. Satirizes the harried lives of women working in offices during World War II. Written in ink on page 1" Annie C. Weir, WD, FMR 1945 (War Department, Financial Management Regulation?). Also written in pencil on the same page: Marie [illegible], Auditor's Office.
Aloneness

Gwendolyn Brooks, Leroy Foster, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Cover printed in blue and black and with illustration. Photo portrait of the author on back cover. Photograph by Howard Simmons. Stapled binding. Library has second printing January 1983. Inscribed to Martha Drake and signed by the author.
The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves

Gwendolyn Brooks, Timothy Jones, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

[36] pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 26 cm. All the tiger's fierce qualities do not satisfy him; he wants to be stylish and wear white gloves. "First Edition, Second Printing" Stapled binding. In clear plastic cover. Walter Lorraine Fund. Formerly in the collection of Tidewater Community College.
Bronzeville Boys and Girls

Gwendolyn Brooks, Ronni Solbert, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

40 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. A collection of poems for and about children, particularly those living in big cities. Contents: Mexie and Bridie -- Val -- Timmy and Tawanda -- Narcissa -- Andre -- Keziah -- Charles -- Cynthia in the snow -- John, who is poor -- Paulette -- Rudolph is tired of the city -- Eppie -- Ella -- Dave -- Luther and Breck -- Michael is afraid of the storm -- Eldora, who is rich -- Beulah at church -- Skipper -- Robert, who is often a stranger to himself -- Lyle -- Nora -- Mirthine at the party -- Maurice -- De Koven -- Gertrude -- Marie Lucille -- Cheryl's Mootsie -- Jim -- Eunice in the evening -- Vern -- Otto -- Tommy -- Admiration of Willy. Illustration on title page. Case binding. Walter Lorraine Fund.
William Morris : poet, craftsman, socialist

Elisabeth Luther Cary, Alice Cordelia Morse, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

ix, 296 pages : plates, portraits, facsimiles. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes bibliography: pages 269-290 and index.Front cover design signed, "MA" (Margaret Armstrong) Library copy is missing title page and frontispiece. Gift of Walter R. & John A. Callender in the name of Walter Callender.
Book of Trees

Mahlon Day, Alexander Anderson, Joseph W. Morse, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

22 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm. "First and last pages blank; pasted to printed wrapper. Wood-engraved illustrations signed by Alexander Anderson and J.W. Morse. Contents: The saw mill -- The olive tree -- The evergreen cypress -- The cedar of Lebanon -- Stump and knees of a cypress tree -- Brazil wood -- The talipot tree. Note: ""Mahlon Day, 374 Pearl Street. "Engraved illustrations on cover and title page. Engraved frontispiece and endpiece on pages [2] & [3] of wrapper. "School books, &c.""--Publisher's catalog, page [4] of wrapper. Cover has border with five different publisher's decorations. Text is hand sewn into yellow paper printed wrapper. In green ink at head of title page: "Mrs. R.P. Sawyer. Along left title page border: Lorenzo Lamb Book Groton."
Notes and Projects for the Large Glass

Marcel Duchamp, Arturo Schwartz, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

217 pages : illus. (some color). Text in English and French. Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even.
Poems of Cabin and Field

Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

125 pages : frontispiece, illustrations, portrait. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Illustrated with photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club and decorations by Alice Morse. CONTENTS: The deserted plantation -- Hunting song -- Little brown baby -- Chris'mus is a-comin' -- Signs of the times -- Time to tinker 'round -- Lullaby -- A banjo song. "University Press, John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A."--title page verso. All pages in printer's decorative frame designed by Alice Morse. Decorated publisher's cloth binding designed by Alice Morse. Green cloth with plant stems printed in light green and flowers in orange, with author, title embossed in gold. Inscribed on front endpage, [in ink] Dr. John Douglas Johnson, from Louise, [in pencil] To, John Douglas Barabar Ann Johnson, from Nanna, 1931. SEI
Home Life in Colonial Days

Alice Morse Earle, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

xvi, 470 pages, [17] pages of plates : illus. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. CONTENTS: Homes of the colonists -- The light of other days -- The kitchen fireside -- The serving of meals -- Food from forest and sea -- Indian corn -- Meat and drink -- Flax culture and spinning -- Wool culture and spinning, with a postscript on cotton -- Hand-weaving -- Girls' occupations -- Dress of the colonists -- Jack-knife industries -- Travel, transportation, and taverns -- Sunday in the colonies -- Old-time flower gardens. The author reconstructs for us colonial life by describing in great detail manners, customs, dress, homes, and child life. Includes index. Title page printed with decorated frame in red. Cloth cover title and illustration designed to look like needlepoint.
Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday

Alice Morse Earle, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

xxiii, 461 pages : ill., plates. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Title within green ornamental border. "The Rosicrucians": p. 366-389. Both copies in Lowthorpe Collection.
Holiday Cards

Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliot and Huger Elliot

9 cards : black and white illustrations. Illustrations signed E.S.G.E. Most cards are approximately 12 x 17 cm, with some slightly smaller. All printed one side only, some with written messages on the verso. All but three cards have dates, 1918-1947. Wood-engraved and photomechanical illustrations, most with text and printed Christmas greetings. Elizabeth Shippen Green (September 1, 1871, Philadelphia- May 29, 1954, Philadelphia); American magazine and book illustrator; illustrated children's books and worked for publications such as the Ladies' home journal, the Saturday evening post and Harper's magazine. Green enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1887 and studied with the painters Thomas Pollock Anshutz, Thomas Eakins, and Robert Vonnoh; afterwards studied with Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute where she met Violet Oakley and Jessie Willcox Smith; "Green became close and lifelong friends with Oakley and Smith. They lived together first at the Red Rose Inn [Villanova, Pa.] (they were called 'the Red Rose girls' by Pyle) and later at Cogslea, their home in the Mount Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia"; in 1911, married Huger Elliott, an architecture professor, and moved away from Cogslea; in 1903, became one of the first 2 women to be elected associate members of the Society of Illustrators even though women were not allowed to be full members; in 1994, elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame") Huger Elliott was RISD President, 1908-1912. Transferred to the RISD Library from the RISD Museum, Prints, Drawings and Photographs department by Jan Howard. The museum acquired the collection as a gift from N. David Scotti (1941?-2008), Providence appraiser and auctioneer, in 1990. Includes printed contents sheet. Housed in plastic three-ring binder/box.
Summer Holiday

Richard Floethe, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

[62] pages : all color illustrations (lithographs) ; 22 cm Imprint from title page verso. Housed in a paper covered slipcase printed with a basket weave pattern. "This book is limited to 150 copies, printed by lithography, hand colored and signed by the artist [signed], Richard Floethe. This copy is number 29 [signed and numbered in ink]"--Colophon. Bequest of Nina Abrams.
Bugs and Wings and Other Things

Annie W. Franchot, Walter Harrison Cady, Jessie Willcox Smith, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

ix, 99 pages, [7] leaves of plates : illus. (some color). Contains illustrated lining papers. CONTENTS: The insects' symphony -- The locusts' song -- Aristocratic worms. Gift of Mrs. Murrary S. Danforth. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
Noa Noa: Voyage á Tahiti

Paul Gauguin, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

[4] p., [2] leaves of plates : illus. (some color), facsim. Facsimile of Gauguin's handwritten notations, color reproductions. Donated by Bess P. Kaufman in memory of Sol. P. Kaufman.
The Golden Age

Kenneth Grahame, Maxfield Parrish, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

252 p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Illustrated title page and lining papers. Stamped cover illustration, also designed by Parrish. Each plate accompanied by descriptive cover sheet. The adventures of five brothers and sisters growing up in rural England in the late nineteenth century. c. 1 Gift of the Estate of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth ; c. 2 Gift of Richard Brown Baker (Circulates)
Gray's Elegy

Thomas Gray, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

38 unnumbered pages : color illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Title page and all interior pages colorfully decorated to resemble an illuminated manuscript. Binder's paper label mounted inside back cover. Gilt edges, inside cover edges with decorative gold tooling. Although the Elegy was often honored with illumination in Victorian Britain, Owen Jones's version contains a number of innovations. It was the first book issued in Leake's patented relievo binding (Ball, Catalogue, no. 46d), the first example of a title page with names of both the London and New York publishers (McLean 91), and an early example of Jones's ability to use the chromolithographic press in designing a consistently interrelated program of illumination.
L'Illustre Dompteur

P. Guigou, A. Vimar, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

47, [1] pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 32 cm. Series: Libraririe Plon. Color illustration on title page. Pochoir illustrations. Cloth binding, color illustration mounted on cover.

Julian L. Peabody collection, transferred from the RISD Museum.
Eugene Field Reader

Alice Harris, Frank W. Cooley, Eugene Field, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

4 preliminary leaves, 96 pages : color illustrations, 20 cm. Illustrated collection of the poems of Eugene Fields. Illustrated title page in color. Case binding, black stamp lettering, illustration stamped in blue and black. Gift of the Estate of Eleanor Fayerweather. Inscribed to Eleanor from Dorothy K., New York, May 1909.
Glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Lafcadio Hearn, Sarah Eyman Whitman, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

2 volumes. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Paged continuously. Includes index (volume 2) Volume 1 cover in green cloth with illustration and lettering in silver; volume 2 cover in yellow cloth with illustration and lettering in black. Gold leaf on top edges. Volume 1 has an engraved bookplate of Elisha Rhodes Brown, on front pastedown. Cover design attributed to Sarah Wyman Whitman. Gift of the Estate of Eleanor Fayerweather.
Selections from the poetry of Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick, Edwin Austin Abbey, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

vi, 188 pages : illus. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Cover title: Selections from the Hesperides & Noble numbers of Robert Herrick. Illustrated title-page with title in red. Preface signed: Austin Dobson. c. 1 Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke ; c. 2 From the library of Chester L. Dodge. 2nd copy in original embossed and illustrated cover. Binding design by Edwin Austin Abbey; front cover with gilt-stamped full cover sunburst design, yellow, red and black-stamped flower devices, & black and red-stamped decorative title lettering; all edges gilt. Art Nouveau design style.
Mother Goose's rhymes, chimes, and jingles : or the nursery treasure.

C. P. Heustis, Vincent L. Dill, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

24 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm Rhymes with pictures. Caption title: Rhymes, chimes, and jingles; by Mother Goose. Hand colored illustration on cover. Illustration on title page. Cover title: Rhymes, chimes and jingles. Charles P. Hestis was located 104 Nassau St., New York, between 1843 and 1853. New York City directories list Huestis both as an individual publishing at 104 Nassau, and as a member of Huestis & Cozans between 1850 and 1852. Vincent L. Dill was active as a stereotyper in New York between 1826 and 1863. Lacking back cover.
The Holy Land

Robert Hitchens, Jules Guerin, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

x, 302 pages : color frontispiece, illustrations, plates (some color). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Title page within ornamental border, printed in black and brown, text page headers also printed in brown. Bound in green publisher's illustrated cloth binding with a stamped image in green, red, blue and gilt on the front cover, representing a view of Nazareth from an illustration by Jules Guerin. The spine has the title and author in gilt with a frame around the title. CONTENTS: Baalbec, the town of the sun -- The spell of Damascus -- From Damascus to Nazareth -- From Nazareth to Jerusalem -- From Jericho to Bethlehem -- Jerusalem -- The Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the ceremonies at Jerusalem. Color plates have printed guard sheets, text printed in red. Gold leaf top side of text. Side and bottom text have deckled edges. Book design by Decorative Designers (Firm); Designers monogram, overlapped DD, with the second D reversed, on cover design. Gift of the Estate of Gino Conti.
The first great inventions

Lancelot Thomas Hogben, Marie Neurath, Joseph Albert Lauwerys, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

36 pages color illustrations 23 cm. Chanticleer wonder-story books. "Designed by the Isotype Institute and printed in six-color offset lithography by Waldheim-Eberle, Vienna, Austria" Color illustrated, double title page. Case binding with original color paper dust jacket.
The Last Leaf : Poem

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Geroge Wharton Edwards, Francis Hopkinson Smith, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

[106] p. : chiefly ill., plates, facsim. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Illustrated title-page in black and red. "The phototype illustrations in this volume were printed by The Lewis Co." Illustration on cover with gold leaf. Vellum spine with gold title and author lettering. Gift of the Estate of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth.
The Miracles of Our Lord

Henry Noel Humphreys, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

[1], 31, iv pages : color illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Ornamental borders, and illustrations, in color. "Remarks of the illuminator. Descriptive index of the miracles" signed: H.N.H. [i.e. Henry Noel Humphreys] "The title-page contains a figure of the Saviour .. in a niche, ornamented in a style corresponding with the rest of the volume."--page iii. "It has been sought to render the [papier mâché] cover also appropriate, by enriching it with medallions representing the principal miracles; it has been partly taken from a .. cover in carved ivory, executed in the 12th century .. The designs of the medallions are original."--page iv. "The English firm Jackson & Sons held the patent for the papier-mâché bindings of the mid-1840s to 1860s that are associated with Henry Noel Humphreys. Intended to imitate medieval hand-carved bindings and architectural sculpture, so-called papier-mâché bindings were made from a molded mixture of plaster, a filler, and possibly actual papier-mâché and antimony."
The origin and progress of the art of writing : a connected narrative of the development of the art in its primeval phases in Egypt, China, and Mexico ... and its subsequent progress to the present day / by Henry Noel Humphreys ; illustrated by a number of specimens of the writing of all ages and a series of facsimiles from autograph letters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.

Henry Noel Humphreys, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

178 pages, 28 leaves of plates : facsimiles (some color). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Spine title: History of writing. All color plates are signed: "H.N. Humphreys, Lith. Day & Son Lith.rs to The Queen." Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Gilt edges. Cover is black papier mache with red backing paper. The design is the same on both covers. Binding design by Henry Noel Humphreys. Library copy is missing spine and is disbound. "The English firm Jackson & Sons held the patent for the papier-mâché bindings of the mid-1840s to 1860s that are associated with Henry Noel Humphreys. Intended to imitate medieval hand-carved bindings and architectural sculpture, so-called papier-mâché bindings were made from a molded mixture of plaster, a filler, and possibly actual papier-mâché and antimony." Unusual cover. Gift of David & Margot Nishimura.
Italian Hours

Henery James, Joseph Pennell, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

ix, 504 pages, [32] color plates. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. "The chapters of which this volume is composed have with few exceptions already been collected." -Preface.
The Preacher

Owen Jones, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

[36] pages : color illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Unusual cover: Ornate wooden binding produced with a heat-stamping machine by Remnant & Edmond. Title "carved" into wooden cover. Ornamental stamping on inside border. Black Morocco spine over ebonized wood boards; front cover with branch borders with titling 'vanity / of vanities / saith the / preacher all / is vanity', and entwined floral decorations framing central titling. Rear cover repeating front, except additional floral decorations replacing central titling. Spine with blind-stamped floral decorations and lettering. Black coated endpapers; turn-ins with gilt-stamped ornaments; all edges gilt. Binding design by Owen Jones. Gift of Mrs. Henry G. Russell. Edmonds & Remnants, binder.
Voyaging Southward from the Strait of Magellan

Rockwell Kentridge, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

xv, 184 pages, [1] leaf of plates : frontispiece, illustrations, maps. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Illustration on title-page. Maps on lining-papers. Cover design also by Kent. Gift of the Estate of Henry D. Sharpe.
2nd Hand Reading

William Kentridge, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

1 volume (various pagings) : color illustrations. Reproduction of an altered book created by drawing and painting in a copy of The shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles, Second Edition, volume I, A-M, 1936. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.
Willy

Helen H. King, Carole Byard, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

47 pages : color illustrations; 21 x 27 cm. 1st edition. "Library edition" Dust jacket with color illustration. Catching the troublesome rat besieging the kitchen challenges a ghetto youth's cleverness and establishes him as the family protector. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
The Magic Flutes

Josef Kožišek, Clara Vostrovsky Winlow, Rudolf Mates, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

53 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, 25 x 33 cm. Illustrated endpapers; color illustrated title page; title and text within blue, green, and red ornamental border; manufacture statement from title verso. "Printed in Czechoslovakia through Raf. D. Szalatnay, New York."--Title verso Text in English, translated from the Czech. Quarter-bound in printed pictorial boards and red cloth. Copy has front and back covers of a slipcase, front duplicates the illustrated cover. Gift of Steven Levine and Freeman Freeman.
The Little White Goat

Dorothy P. Lathrop, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

58 pages : color frontispiece, illustrations. Illustrated title page and lining-pages. Two children are led into a wood by a magical white goat, and are able to play with all the baby animals there. Case binding. Yellow-brown cloth with title and illustration stamped in orange. Purchase from Cellar Stories.
The Lost Merry-Go-Round

Dorothy P. Lathrop, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

6 preliminary leaves, 104 pages : color frontispiece, illustrations. Illustrated title page and lining-papers. In Flittermouse Wood children discover a lost merry-go-round that takes them on magical journeys to places they long to go. "Printed in the United States of America, American Book-Stratford Press, Inc., New York."-- title page verso. Library has second printing, November 1938. Case binding. Original dust jacket, missing portions of spine and head of front cover. Water staining on half title page and verso. Purchased from Cellar Stories.
Skipping Village

Lois Lenski, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

179 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates : color frontispiece, color plates. "Oh, I know a town, a funny little town, that sits on the top of a hill; for years it has sat, in the very same spot, and I know it is sitting there still." Based on the author's childhood experiences near the turn of the century in a small Ohio town. Illustrated title page, illustrated map on lining-papers. Case binding, blue cloth with title and decorated frame stamped in yellow. Spine in poor condition. Purchase from Cellar Stories.
Si Lewen's Parade : An Artist's Odyssey

Si Lewen, Art Spiegelman, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

1 volume (unpaged), 71 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color). Opened one way, the accordion-fold book is unpaged and is comprised of Si Lewen's Parade with a short introduction by Art Spiegelman and a short excerpt of an interview with Si Lewen by Steve Grieger and Laura Mirsky from 2007. Opened the other way, the book contains a 71 page commentary by Art Spiegelman about Lewen and his work. "Si Lewen's Parade is a timeless story told in a language that knows no country--a wordless epic that, despite its muteness, is more powerful than the written or the spoken word. First published in 1957, The Parade is a lost classic, newly discovered, remastered, and presented by Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus. Reproduced in a unique two-sided accordion-fold format with an extensive overview of the artist's career on the verso, The Parade is a celebration of art and the story of recurring war as Si Lewen experienced it over the past 90 years, watching the joyful parades that marked the end of World War I lead into the death marches of World War II and the Korean War. As The Parade unfolds, the reader is taken on an unforgettable journey of sequential images"-- Provided by publisher. Editing and design: Art Spiegelman. In paper slipcase.
The Hanging of the Crane

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Arthur Ignatius Keller, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

30 ℓ. : 13 leaves of plates. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Title in green and black within ornamental border; decorations; initials in color. "Illustrations by Arthur I. Keller. Designs by Florence W. Swan." Book in poor condition, loose pages, in binder.
Mother Goose Riddle Rhymes

Joseph Low, Ruth Low, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

[44] pages : color illus. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Color illustrated title-page and dust jacket. Book jacket design by Joseph Low, printed offset. Book seller's label, inside back cover: Museum Books, Inc., 48 East 43rd Street, New York 17, N.Y. Gift of Christine Jones (RISD IA '52).
Red Light, Green Light

Golden MacDonald, Leonard Weisgard, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations. Series: A Zephyr book. "Junior books." Summary: All day and night the traffic signal blinks its messages of stop and go. "This book is complete and unabridged, manufactured under wartime conditions in conformity with all government regulations controlling the use of paper and other materials. Printed by Michaelson Lithograph Corporation."-- page preceding title page. Golden MacDonald was a pseudonym used by Margaret Wise Brown. Title page printed in red, green and black. Limited color palette lithography, mainly red, green, grey, brown and black. Case binding. Original color illustrated dust jacket, missing small part of spine header and back cover, and portion of bottom of front cover. Lining papers in red and green. Purchase from Cellar Stories.
Mummy's Bedtime Story Book

Marion, Mrs. Alexander Marion Gemmell, Jessie Marion King, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

56 pages color illustrations. Printed Photo-Offset by Suttley & Silverlock, LTD., Blackfriars Road. Color illustrated frontispiece, title page, and endpapers. Eleven full-page illustrations, with color decorations on each text page. Bound in bright paper covered pictorial boards with title in red. Case binding. Jessie Marion King (20 March 1875--3 August 1949) was a Scottish illustrator known for her beautiful illustrated children's books; she also designed jewelery and fabric, and painted pottery; King was one of the artists known as the Glasgow Girls. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
The Romance of Rubber

John Martin, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

24 pages : illustrations, map, 24 cm. Full cover illustration, printed green, black, and orange on off-white. First three, and last three, pages printed in red and black. Frontispiece printed on page [2] of cover. Illustration signed George Carlson. Advertisement for Keds shoes on page [3] of cover. Gift of Claudia Covert.
Peaches

Dindga McCannon, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

126 pages : illustrations; 22 cm. A young black girl growing up in Harlem tells about her life with her family and her ambition to be an artist. Paper dust jacket with color illustration. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays!

Winsor McCay, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

[150] p. : chiefly col. ill. "Splendid Sundays, 1905-1910". Includes bibliographical references. Gift of Tim Finn.
The Jackson Pollock Sketchbooks in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

4 v. in boxed set, [80] p. of plates : ill. (some col.). Portfolio box (61 x 43 cm.) includes 3 sketchbook facsimiles and 1 volume of text (88 p. : ill. ; 21 x 28 cm.) "This first edition is limited to 525 copies, of which 500 are for sale": inside cover of box. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Oct. 22, 1997-Feb. 8, 1998. Library has copy no. 489. Sally Hume Lincoln Memorial Fund. Includes bibliographical references.
Bohemian Paris of To-day

W. C. Morrow, Edward Cucuel, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

321 p. : ill. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Title vignette. From the Library of Chester L. Dodge, Class of 1902
The Changing City

Jörg Müller, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

8 folded leaves in portfolio : all color illustrations ; 33 cm. First American edition. Oversize. Translation of Hier Fällt ein Haus, dort steht ein Kran und ewig droht der Baggerzahn oder Die Veränderung der Stadt. "Here, in eight, full-color, fold-out pictures ... Müller has created an accurate portrait of urban decay and change that is equally true of the city scene in the United States."--inside front cover. SUMMARY The sequence of eight illustrations, which are based on documents in Swiss and German municipal archives, shows how one section of a city changes at three-year intervals between 1953 and 1976. The companion volume to Müller's The Changing Countryside. Cover title. "A Margaret K. McFlderry book."
The Changing Countryside

Jörg Müller, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

7 folded leaves in portfolio : all color illustrations. Translation of: Alle Jahre wieder saust der Presslufthammer nieder oder Die Veränderung der Landschaft. Originally published in Switzerland, 1973. "A Margaret K. McElderry book." Seven large, foldout pictures in full color depict the decline of a Swiss countryside from 1953 to 1972. "Third American printing"
The Sea People

Jörg Müller, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

[36] pages : chiefly color illustrations. Translation of: Die Menschen im Meer. German edition published in 1981. Summary: The superiority of the differing ways of life on two neighboring islands is put to the test when gold is discovered on one of them. Illustrated title page. Case binding
Around the World in a Flash: how messages are sent via telephone, telegraph, radio, and television

Marie Neurath, Isotype Institute, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

36 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm. The How and why series. "A Chanticleer edition". "Printed in Great Britain by Graphic Reproductions Ltd. London". Color illustrated, double title page. Case binding with paper color dust jacket. Jacket has tears at top of spine and back cover bottom left corner.
The Holy Experiment: a message to the world from Pennsylvania

Violet Oakley, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

xii, l6, 19-38, 40-51, [7] pages : illus., 22 leaves of mounted color plates (2 folded); 57cm. Series of mural paintings by Violet Oakley... in the Governor̓s Reception Room and in the Senate Chamber of the State Capitol at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Printed in black, red and blue. In portfolio. Leather portfolio with stamp, border and leather bosses. Metal clasps hold the covers together. Gold leaf on inside covers. Leather spine has been repaired/replaced. Title vignette. Illustrated title-page. "This edition is limited to 500 copies of which this is no. 34." Numbered and signed by the artist. "The pages of the original manuscript have been written and illustrated by Violet Oakley from her notes made in preparation for the paintings from 1902 to 1922. They are reproduced from plates made by the Beck Engraving Co." Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
Oh, Yes a Pohlson Gift: gifts that make giving a pleasure

Pohlson Galleries, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

32, [8], 33-64 pages : illustrations, 23 cm. Profusely illustrated gift catalog, hundreds of fascinating and unusual objects offered for sale, many with a strong Art Deco visual or graphic aesthetic. "Farrington Printing Co., Boston."-- Index page. Color illustrations on covers. Includes catalog mail envelope, and small order envelope. Catalog envelope addressed to: Mrs. James P. Johnson, 150 Broad Street, New London, Conn. 2 cent stamp, postmarked, Boston, Mass. Catalog illustrators/designers include RISD Alumni.
The Pohlson Line : gifts that make giving a pleasure

Pohlson Galleries, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

32, [8], 33-64 pages : illustrations, 23 cm. Cover title. "Farrington Printing Co., Boston."-- Index page. Profusely illustrated gift catalog, hundreds of fascinating and unusual objects offered for sale, many with a strong Art Deco visual or graphic aesthetic. Includes catalog mail envelope, and small order envelope. Catalog envelope addressed to: Mrs. James P. Johnson, 150 Broad St., New London, Conn. 2 cent stamp, postmarked, Boston, Mass. Catalog illustrators/designers include RISD Alumni.
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire

Howard Pyle, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

xx, 296 p. : ill. . Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Recounts the adventures of Robin Hood, who slew a deer on a wager, became an outlaw in Sherwood Forest, and collected around him a merry band, including Little John, Allan a Dale, Friar Tuck, and Will Stutely. c.1--Gift of the Estate of William E. Brigham (SPECIAL) ; c.2--Gift of Louisa D. Sharpe Metcalf (CIRCULATES)
Flower of the Dusk

Myrtle Reed, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

iv, 341 pages : color frontispiece illustration. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Decorated cloth binding signed by the designer: MA [Margaret Armstrong]. Lilac color cloth binding, lettering and illustration emboss in white and gold. Title page and text pages printed in black and red, all pages in frames. Top edge of text block gold gilt. Inside front cover, large bookplate of Gladys and Herbert Clark. Library copy printed October 1910. Case binding.
The Little Red Engine Gets a Name

Diana Ross, Jan Lewitt, George Mates, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, 18 x 25 cm. The little red engine proves he is worthy of being a main line engine and gets a special name by order of the king.
The Passover Haggadah

Heinz Seelig, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

80 pages : color illustrations, 25 cm. Text in Hebrew and English. Issued in slipcase. Gold illuminations. Signed by the illustrator. Gift of Lisa Schachner.
A Child's Book of Old Verses

Jessie Willcox Smith

ix, 124 pages, [10] leaves of plates : illus. (some color). Illustrated lining-papers. Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Wetherell. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
Curly Locks, Curly Locks, Wilt Thou Be Mine?

Jessie Willcox Smith; Colgate & Company; Dodd, Meade & Company; Special Collections; and Fleet Library

1 of a set of 12 booklets : illustrations (some color); 9 x 14 cm. Title adapted from covers. 1 of a set of 12 nursery rhyme pamphlets with cover designs and text illustrations adapted from the Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., c1914). Part of a Colgate promotional campaign? Good Housekeeping Magazine copyright notice on front covers. Color illustrations on cover; b&w in text. Each booklet is eight numbered pages. Illustrated advertisement for Colgate toothpaste on the pages [2] & [3] of covers. SET CONTENTS: Little Bo Peep -- Jack and Jill went up the Hill -- Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet -- Rain, rain, go away -- Ring around the Rosie -- Mary, Mary, quite contrary -- Curly Locks, Curly Locks, Wilt thou be mine? -- Peter Peter pumpkin eater -- Hush-a-bye-Baby, On the tree top -- One foot up, the foot down -- See Saw, Margery Daw. Each title has "and other Mother Goose Melodies" as a cover sub-title. Chromolithographic cover illustrations. Each booklet stapled binding. Library is missing one of the 12 booklets (There was an old woman who lived in a shoe and other Mother Goose melodies). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
Hush-a-bye-Baby On the Tree Top

Jessie Willcox Smith; Colgate & Company; Dodd, Meade & Company; Special Collections; and Fleet Library

2 of a set of 12 booklets : illustrations (some color); 9 x 14 cm. Title adapted from covers. 1 of a set of 12 nursery rhyme pamphlets with cover designs and text illustrations adapted from the Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., c1914). Part of a Colgate promotional campaign? Good Housekeeping Magazine copyright notice on front covers. Color illustrations on cover; b&w in text. Each booklet is eight numbered pages. Illustrated advertisement for Colgate toothpaste on the pages [2] & [3] of covers. SET CONTENTS: Little Bo Peep -- Jack and Jill went up the Hill -- Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet -- Rain, rain, go away -- Ring around the Rosie -- Mary, Mary, quite contrary -- Curly Locks, Curly Locks, Wilt thou be mine? -- Peter Peter pumpkin eater -- Hush-a-bye-Baby, On the tree top -- One foot up, the foot down -- See Saw, Margery Daw. Each title has "and other Mother Goose Melodies" as a cover sub-title. Chromolithographic cover illustrations. Each booklet stapled binding. Library is missing one of the 12 booklets (There was an old woman who lived in a shoe and other Mother Goose melodies). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
Jack and Jill Went Up the Hill

Jessie Willcox Smith; Colgate & Company; Dodd, Meade & Company; Special Collections; and Fleet Library

3 of a set of 12 booklets : illustrations (some color); 9 x 14 cm. Title adapted from covers. 1 of a set of 12 nursery rhyme pamphlets with cover designs and text illustrations adapted from the Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., c1914). Part of a Colgate promotional campaign? Good Housekeeping Magazine copyright notice on front covers. Color illustrations on cover; b&w in text. Each booklet is eight numbered pages. Illustrated advertisement for Colgate toothpaste on the pages [2] & [3] of covers. SET CONTENTS: Little Bo Peep -- Jack and Jill went up the Hill -- Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet -- Rain, rain, go away -- Ring around the Rosie -- Mary, Mary, quite contrary -- Curly Locks, Curly Locks, Wilt thou be mine? -- Peter Peter pumpkin eater -- Hush-a-bye-Baby, On the tree top -- One foot up, the foot down -- See Saw, Margery Daw. Each title has "and other Mother Goose Melodies" as a cover sub-title. Chromolithographic cover illustrations. Each booklet stapled binding. Library is missing one of the 12 booklets (There was an old woman who lived in a shoe and other Mother Goose melodies). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
Little bo-peep

Jessie Willcox Smith; Colgate & Company; Dodd, Meade & Company; Special Collections; and Fleet Library

4 of a set of 12 booklets : illustrations (some color); 9 x 14 cm. Title adapted from covers. 1 of a set of 12 nursery rhyme pamphlets with cover designs and text illustrations adapted from the Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., c1914). Part of a Colgate promotional campaign? Good Housekeeping Magazine copyright notice on front covers. Color illustrations on cover; b&w in text. Each booklet is eight numbered pages. Illustrated advertisement for Colgate toothpaste on the pages [2] & [3] of covers. SET CONTENTS: Little Bo Peep -- Jack and Jill went up the Hill -- Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet -- Rain, rain, go away -- Ring around the Rosie -- Mary, Mary, quite contrary -- Curly Locks, Curly Locks, Wilt thou be mine? -- Peter Peter pumpkin eater -- Hush-a-bye-Baby, On the tree top -- One foot up, the foot down -- See Saw, Margery Daw. Each title has "and other Mother Goose Melodies" as a cover sub-title. Chromolithographic cover illustrations. Each booklet stapled binding. Library is missing one of the 12 booklets (There was an old woman who lived in a shoe and other Mother Goose melodies). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
Little Miss Muffet Sat on a Tuffet

Jessie Willcox Smith; Colgate & Company; Dodd, Meade & Company; Special Collections; and Fleet Library

5 of a set of 12 booklets : illustrations (some color); 9 x 14 cm. Title adapted from covers. 1 of a set of 12 nursery rhyme pamphlets with cover designs and text illustrations adapted from the Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., c1914). Part of a Colgate promotional campaign? Good Housekeeping Magazine copyright notice on front covers. Color illustrations on cover; b&w in text. Each booklet is eight numbered pages. Illustrated advertisement for Colgate toothpaste on the pages [2] & [3] of covers. SET CONTENTS: Little Bo Peep -- Jack and Jill went up the Hill -- Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet -- Rain, rain, go away -- Ring around the Rosie -- Mary, Mary, quite contrary -- Curly Locks, Curly Locks, Wilt thou be mine? -- Peter Peter pumpkin eater -- Hush-a-bye-Baby, On the tree top -- One foot up, the foot down -- See Saw, Margery Daw. Each title has "and other Mother Goose Melodies" as a cover sub-title. Chromolithographic cover illustrations. Each booklet stapled binding. Library is missing one of the 12 booklets (There was an old woman who lived in a shoe and other Mother Goose melodies). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
May, Mary Quite Contrary

Jessie Willcox Smith; Colgate & Company; Dodd, Meade & Company; Special Collections; and Fleet Library

6 of a set of 12 booklets : illustrations (some color); 9 x 14 cm. Title adapted from covers. 1 of a set of 12 nursery rhyme pamphlets with cover designs and text illustrations adapted from the Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., c1914). Part of a Colgate promotional campaign? Good Housekeeping Magazine copyright notice on front covers. Color illustrations on cover; b&w in text. Each booklet is eight numbered pages. Illustrated advertisement for Colgate toothpaste on the pages [2] & [3] of covers. SET CONTENTS: Little Bo Peep -- Jack and Jill went up the Hill -- Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet -- Rain, rain, go away -- Ring around the Rosie -- Mary, Mary, quite contrary -- Curly Locks, Curly Locks, Wilt thou be mine? -- Peter Peter pumpkin eater -- Hush-a-bye-Baby, On the tree top -- One foot up, the foot down -- See Saw, Margery Daw. Each title has "and other Mother Goose Melodies" as a cover sub-title. Chromolithographic cover illustrations. Each booklet stapled binding. Library is missing one of the 12 booklets (There was an old woman who lived in a shoe and other Mother Goose melodies). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
One Foot Up, the other Foot Down

Jessie Willcox Smith; Colgate & Company; Dodd, Meade & Company; Special Collections; and Fleet Library

7 of a set of 12 booklets : illustrations (some color); 9 x 14 cm. Title adapted from covers. 1 of a set of 12 nursery rhyme pamphlets with cover designs and text illustrations adapted from the Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., c1914). Part of a Colgate promotional campaign? Good Housekeeping Magazine copyright notice on front covers. Color illustrations on cover; b&w in text. Each booklet is eight numbered pages. Illustrated advertisement for Colgate toothpaste on the pages [2] & [3] of covers. SET CONTENTS: Little Bo Peep -- Jack and Jill went up the Hill -- Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet -- Rain, rain, go away -- Ring around the Rosie -- Mary, Mary, quite contrary -- Curly Locks, Curly Locks, Wilt thou be mine? -- Peter Peter pumpkin eater -- Hush-a-bye-Baby, On the tree top -- One foot up, the foot down -- See Saw, Margery Daw. Each title has "and other Mother Goose Melodies" as a cover sub-title. Chromolithographic cover illustrations. Each booklet stapled binding. Library is missing one of the 12 booklets (There was an old woman who lived in a shoe and other Mother Goose melodies). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater

Jessie Willcox Smith; Colgate & Company; Dodd, Meade & Company; Special Collections; and Fleet Library

8 of a set of 12 booklets : illustrations (some color); 9 x 14 cm. Title adapted from covers. 1 of a set of 12 nursery rhyme pamphlets with cover designs and text illustrations adapted from the Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., c1914). Part of a Colgate promotional campaign? Good Housekeeping Magazine copyright notice on front covers. Color illustrations on cover; b&w in text. Each booklet is eight numbered pages. Illustrated advertisement for Colgate toothpaste on the pages [2] & [3] of covers. SET CONTENTS: Little Bo Peep -- Jack and Jill went up the Hill -- Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet -- Rain, rain, go away -- Ring around the Rosie -- Mary, Mary, quite contrary -- Curly Locks, Curly Locks, Wilt thou be mine? -- Peter Peter pumpkin eater -- Hush-a-bye-Baby, On the tree top -- One foot up, the foot down -- See Saw, Margery Daw. Each title has "and other Mother Goose Melodies" as a cover sub-title. Chromolithographic cover illustrations. Each booklet stapled binding. Library is missing one of the 12 booklets (There was an old woman who lived in a shoe and other Mother Goose melodies). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
Rain, Rain Go Away

Jessie Willcox Smith; Colgate & Company; Dodd, Meade & Company; Special Collections; and Fleet Library

9 of a set of 12 booklets : illustrations (some color); 9 x 14 cm. Title adapted from covers. 1 of a set of 12 nursery rhyme pamphlets with cover designs and text illustrations adapted from the Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., c1914). Part of a Colgate promotional campaign? Good Housekeeping Magazine copyright notice on front covers. Color illustrations on cover; b&w in text. Each booklet is eight numbered pages. Illustrated advertisement for Colgate toothpaste on the pages [2] & [3] of covers. SET CONTENTS: Little Bo Peep -- Jack and Jill went up the Hill -- Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet -- Rain, rain, go away -- Ring around the Rosie -- Mary, Mary, quite contrary -- Curly Locks, Curly Locks, Wilt thou be mine? -- Peter Peter pumpkin eater -- Hush-a-bye-Baby, On the tree top -- One foot up, the foot down -- See Saw, Margery Daw. Each title has "and other Mother Goose Melodies" as a cover sub-title. Chromolithographic cover illustrations. Each booklet stapled binding. Library is missing one of the 12 booklets (There was an old woman who lived in a shoe and other Mother Goose melodies). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
Ring around A Rosie

Jessie Willcox Smith; Colgate & Company; Dodd, Meade & Company; Special Collections; and Fleet Library

10 of a set of 12 booklets : illustrations (some color); 9 x 14 cm. Title adapted from covers. 1 of a set of 12 nursery rhyme pamphlets with cover designs and text illustrations adapted from the Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., c1914). Part of a Colgate promotional campaign? Good Housekeeping Magazine copyright notice on front covers. Color illustrations on cover; b&w in text. Each booklet is eight numbered pages. Illustrated advertisement for Colgate toothpaste on the pages [2] & [3] of covers. SET CONTENTS: Little Bo Peep -- Jack and Jill went up the Hill -- Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet -- Rain, rain, go away -- Ring around the Rosie -- Mary, Mary, quite contrary -- Curly Locks, Curly Locks, Wilt thou be mine? -- Peter Peter pumpkin eater -- Hush-a-bye-Baby, On the tree top -- One foot up, the foot down -- See Saw, Margery Daw. Each title has "and other Mother Goose Melodies" as a cover sub-title. Chromolithographic cover illustrations. Each booklet stapled binding. Library is missing one of the 12 booklets (There was an old woman who lived in a shoe and other Mother Goose melodies). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
See Saw, Margery Daw

Jessie Willcox Smith; Colgate & Company; Dodd, Meade & Company; Special Collections; and Fleet Library

11 of a set of 12 booklets : illustrations (some color); 9 x 14 cm. Title adapted from covers. 1 of a set of 12 nursery rhyme pamphlets with cover designs and text illustrations adapted from the Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., c1914). Part of a Colgate promotional campaign? Good Housekeeping Magazine copyright notice on front covers. Color illustrations on cover; b&w in text. Each booklet is eight numbered pages. Illustrated advertisement for Colgate toothpaste on the pages [2] & [3] of covers. SET CONTENTS: Little Bo Peep -- Jack and Jill went up the Hill -- Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet -- Rain, rain, go away -- Ring around the Rosie -- Mary, Mary, quite contrary -- Curly Locks, Curly Locks, Wilt thou be mine? -- Peter Peter pumpkin eater -- Hush-a-bye-Baby, On the tree top -- One foot up, the foot down -- See Saw, Margery Daw. Each title has "and other Mother Goose Melodies" as a cover sub-title. Chromolithographic cover illustrations. Each booklet stapled binding. Library is missing one of the 12 booklets (There was an old woman who lived in a shoe and other Mother Goose melodies). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
The Old Farmer's Almanack

Robert Bailey Thomas, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

48 pages : illustrations. "Sold by the booksellers and traders throughout New England." At head of title: Number Seventy-Eight. This copy has cover wrappers printed with advertisements for businesses in New Bedford, Mass. Inside wrapper has publisher info: New Bedford: S. Hutchinson. This copy has a hole punched in the upper left hand corner of the cover, looped with a piece of string.
The Blue Flower

Henry Van Dyke, Margaret Armstrong, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

vii, [1] pages, 2 leaves, 298, [1] pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : color frontispiece, plates. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. CONTENTS: The blue flower [from the German of Novalis] -- The source -- The mill -- Spy rock -- Wood-magic -- The other wise man -- A handful of clay -- The lost word -- The first Christmas-tree. Illustrations by J.R. Weguelin, Frank V. DuMond, Arthur Heming, Howard Pyle, and C.K. Linson. Title page printed in red and black. Decorated cloth binding, signed MA (Margaret Armstrong) Dark blue cloth, lettering and decoration emboss in gold, blue, and green. Top edge gold gilt. Case binding. Library copy November 1906 printing.
Draining for Profit and Draining for Health

Geroge Edwin Waring, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

252 pages : illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. New and revised edition. Includes index. First edition published: New York: O. Judd & Co., 1867. Decorated cloth binding, in brown cloth. Front and back cover boards have a band of decorative embossing at the top and at the bottom. At the center of the front cover board is a gold stamped motif of a figure digging a drainage ditch. To his side are additional tools and some drainage tiles. The image is signed Feely, lower right. Spine has some decorative stamping. Lowthorpe Collection. Feely, John, 1819-1878, cover designer.
Britain at War

Monroe Wheeler, Herbert Read, E. J. Carter, Carlos Dyer, and E. McKnight Kauffer

97 pages : illustrations (color frontispiece). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Defense of the Islands / T.S. Eliot -- The artist and national defense / Monroe Wheeler -- The war as seen by British artists / Herbert Read -- Paintings and drawings -- Photographs -- Architectural reconstruction and war-time forms / E.J. Carter -- Cartoons -- Posters -- The role of the artist in camouflage / Carlos Dyer -- Catalog of paintings and drawings. Ten thousand copies .. printed by the Plantin Press. Cover design by McKnight Kauffer. Gift of William H. Edwards.
Sati the Rastifarian

Edgar White, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

[31] pages : illustrations (some color); 26cm. Illustration on title page, type in black and brown. Five-year-old Sati misses his home when he leaves the West Indies to come to New York for an education. Illustration on dust jacket. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
Children of Night

Edgar White, Dindga McCannon, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

38 pages : illustrations; 24 cm. Chronicles some of the pleasures, dreams, and experiences of a young black boy living in the South Bronx. Paper dust jacket with color illustration. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
The Rabbits' Wedding

Garth Williams, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm. Double, illustrated title page. "Printed in the United States of America"--Title page verso. Two little rabbits, one white and one black, decide they want to remain friends forever, so they marry each other in a forest wedding. Illustrated book jacket, some tears and paper wear, loss. Case binding. Walter Lorraine Fund.

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