Library Company of Philadelphia
19th-Century publishers’ bindings marked a new trend in book decoration: using images from the text as the cover design. Prior to this, book decoration rarely related to the textual content. Our copy of Katherine Berry di Zérèga’s The Children’s Paradise (New York, 1877) features a gilt-stamped binding based on an illustration by Lucy Gibbons Morse from the book. #PublishersBindingThursday
Illuminating influential illustrators! Art historian, Mark W. Sullivan writes about the Red Rose Girls and their impact on book and magazine illustration in the early 20th Century especially in Philadelphia. You can read more about these talented women here: http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/red-rose-girls/
Have You a Red Cross Service Flag? 1918. Jessie Wilcox Smith, 1863-1935, artist.