[Fine Binding | W.H. Smith | Fore Edge Painting] The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier Private Press MA: Village Press

MA: Village Press

richly gilt turn-ins with blue and gold marbled endpapers

and restrained Arts & Crafts layout point to the British calligraphic revival in the orbit of Edward Johnston

Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company

Printed on French-folded handmade Ruisdael paper

[Fine Binding | W.H. Smith | Fore Edge Painting] The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier Private Press MA: Village PressWhittier, John Greenleaf (edited by W. Garrett Horder). The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier. Complete Edition, with Notes, Index of First Lines and Chronological List. London: Henry Frowde, 1898. Portrait frontispiece of Whittier facing title. Bound in full dark red crushed morocco by W. H. Smith (unsigned, but a known binding design from the firm under Douglas Cockerell), the covers framed in double gilt rules with repeated small floral