[American Aesthetic Movement] The New Day Roycrofters MacDonald and Phoebe Anna Traquair

MacDonald and Phoebe Anna Traquair

Appears to have been used as a guest book by a single family from 1920-1967

Frank & Emily Mathewson hand-printed a variety of items in their shop in Springfield

and Company

and title and author to the other compartment

[American Aesthetic Movement] The New Day Roycrofters MacDonald and Phoebe Anna TraquairGilder, Richard Watson. The New Day, A Poem in Songs and Sonnets. New York: Scribner, Armstrong, and Company, 1876. Illustrations engraved by Henry Marsh. Gold peacock feather on blue cloth over beveled boards. Burgundy endpapers. The binding design by Helena de Kay Gilder is believed to be the first publisher's binding to be designed by a woman in the United States (The Proper Decoration of Book Covers, Dubansky). Measures approx. 5. 25" x 7". Dark