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Description
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
Publication Date
1899
Imprint / Year
New York : Dodd, Mead & Co., 1899
Publisher
Dodd, Meade & Co.
City
New York
Keywords
Bound to Please Exhibit 2022; equity; African American; poetry; illustration (process); illustrations (layout features)
Disciplines
Book and Paper | Illustration
RISD Fleet Library Catalog Record
Recommended Citation
Dunbar, Paul Lawrence; Collections, Special; and Library, Fleet, "Poems of Cabin and Field" (1899). Illustration. 40.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_books_illustration/40