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  Field Book Of Western Wildflowers

  Margaret Armstrong, J. J. Thornbern, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  xx, 596 pages color frontispiece, illustrations, color plates. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. "With five hundred illustrations in black and white, and forty-eight plates in color drawn from nature by the author." Publisher should be G. P. Putnam's Sons. Includes index. Decorated publisher's binding. Title lettering and cover design by Margaret Armstrong, emboss in gold on red cloth, light-orange on edges. "Eighth printing, August 1926" Armstrong was one of the first women to descend to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. She is credited with discovering new flower species there.

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  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.

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  Four Addresses

  Henry Lee Higginson, Sarah Wyman, Daniel Berkeley, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  106 pages, [2] leaves of plates : ports. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022.

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  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.

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  The Ruling Passion: tales of nature and human nature

  Henry Van Dyke, Clark W. Appleton, Margaret Armstrong, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  x, 295, [1] pages : frontispiece, plates. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. CONTENTS: A lover of music -- The reward of virtue -- A brave heart -- The gentle life -- A friend of justice -- The white blot -- A year of nobility --The keeper of the light. NOTE Title page printed in red and black. Blue cloth binding, decorative pattern emboss in green and gold. Decorated cloth binding by Margaret Armstrong. Bookseller's label inside front cover: F. Loeser & Co., Brooklyn, Book Store. This copy withdrawn from the Burnham Library, Bridgewater, Conn. Gift of Selma Ordewer, in memory of Daniel Berkeley Bianchi.

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  The Rossettis : Dante Gabriel and Christina

  Elisabeth Luther Cary, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  xi, 310 pages : frontispiece, plates, ports. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. xi, 310 pages : frontispiece, plates, ports. "Christina Rossetti's poems": pages 282-287. Chronological list of paintings and drawings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti: pages 288-301. "List of the more important writings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti": pages 277-281.

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  The Old Gentleman of the Black Stock

  Thomas Nelson Page, Howard Chandler Christy, Margaret Armstrong, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  viii, 169 pages, [7] leaves of plates : color illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Color illustration on title page. "D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston"--Colophon. Light blue cloth cover with decoration emboss in gold, mounted label on cover with silhouette cameos in black and with gold lettering. Decorated cloth binding signed by the designer: MA [i.e. Margaret Armstrong]. Front cover detached from textblock. Gift of Selma Ordewer, in memory of Daniel Berkeley Bianchi.

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  Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries

  Rodolfo Lanciani, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  xxix, 329 pages, [36] leaves of plates : frontispiece, illustrations, map, plans. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. One hundred illustrations. Includes index. Decorated cloth cover, white cloth on spine, red cloth over cover boards, gold tooling designs and decoration, title emboss in gold. Cover design attributed to Sarah Wyman Whitman. Case binding. Written in ink on front end paper: "H. B. Russell, Rome, March 16, 1894" Bequest of Mrs. Henry G. Russell from the Library of Mrs. A. A. Ives

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  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.