Catalog of the Fourth Exhibition of American Decorated Publishers' Bindings

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The Fourth Exhibition of
American Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Collected and Described by Richard Minsky

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Cover by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue
Boston: L. C. Page, 1899

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Cataloging of this exhibition is in progress. This is a preliminary list of cover artists.

Ethel Belle Appel
Margaret Armstrong
Thomas Watson Ball
Reginald B. Birch
Will Bradley
Claude Bragdon
Alfred Brennan
Charles Livingston Bull
Jay Chambers
Evelyn W. Clark
John Cecil Clay
Thomas Maitland Cleland
Ray Coyle
Earl Stetson Crawford
William Wallace Denslow
The Cm Designer
The Cx Designer
The Decorative Designers
John F. Earhart
George Wharton Edwards
Adam Empie
Katherine Enright
Charles Buckles Falls
Edward Salisbury Field
Daisy Fletcher
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue
Frederick W. Gookin
F. C. Gordon

Frederic W. Goudy
Ethel Watts-Mumford Grant &
Richard Butler Glaenzer
George H. Hallowell
George R. Halm
Theodore Brown Hapgood
Frank Hazenplug
John Held Jr.
A. Hilgenreiner
Edward Stratton Holloway
George W. Hood
Henry Hutt
Adrian Iorio
William James Jordan
Rockwell Kent
Robert Elliot Kinsley
Blanche McManus Mansfield
Harry B. Matthews
Haldane Macfall
Henry McCarter
T.B. Meteyard
The Modernist Master
(Thomas) Guernsey Moore
Alice C. Morse
Harry Neyland
Jean Olive
Frank C. Papé
Henry L. Parkhurst

Marion L. Peabody
John Peter Pemberton
Edward Penfield
Mary E. Phillips
Howard Pyle
Amy Rand
Ethel Reed
Louis J. Rhead
Amy Richards
Rome K. Richardson
Charles Robinson
Ida May Rockwell
Bruce Rogers
Amy Sacker
Frank Berkeley Smith
Harry L. Smith
W. E. B. Starkweather
Bertha Stuart
Lindsay Dening Symington
Henry Thayer
Lee Thayer
Elihu Vedder
Sarah Wyman Whitman
N. C. Wyeth
Genjiro Yeto
F. C. Yohn

The Bubbling Teapot
Boston: D. Lothrop & Company, ©1886

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Deluxe Edition limited to 25 signed and numbered copies with color photos of 300 designs, printed in archival high resolution inkjet, in a hardbound cloth binding by Richard Minsky, based on a cover design in this edition. It is in the 13" x 9.5" format. The CD-ROM accompanies the book in a separate plastic case.
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