Author: Goldsmith, Oliver.
Title: The Deserted Village. Illustrated by the Etching Club.
Description: New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1859. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 46, 2pp. Bound in dark brown hard grain morocco with large leafy and arabesque border enclosing the title and source of illustration in gilt with leafy flourishes and binder's (?) initials, L. J. within leafy flourish. Design repeated on lower cover. Spine delicately gilt. Very much in the style of bindings done by E. H. Butler & Co. except that their work, as shown in Maser, dates from a later period. Illustrated. In Maser's books, reference is made to E. H. Butler & Co.'s bindings as, "incorporating the drap color and simple spines with heavily ornamented boards." One contemporary writer referred to Butler & Company's "inventive genius in the art of ornamentation, capable of bringing forth continually new styles of elegant embellishment." Good.

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