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My Commencement: Being a record of the school, the faculty, commencement exercises, essays and operations, speeches, prizes, social events, subjects studied, the class motto, colors, flower and yell, the class history, poem and prophecy, my classmates, reunions.
by [Publishers’ Binding]. STEWART, Bertha (design & decoration), with frontis by Harrison Fisher
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- Hardcover
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- Seller
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1910. Octavo (8.75" x 6.25"), unpaginated. Publisher's gilt-lettered light gray/ blue cloth with a pictorial illustration applied to the front cover
Five pages with brief ink annotations, otherwise a Fine, largely unused copy.
A spectacular example of a publisher's binding, this with floral endpapers initialed in print by designer Bertha Stewart who also contributes the pictorial cover & internal decorations. Renowned illustrator Harrison Fisher adds a color frontis in his characteristic "beautiful girl" style. Annotations within indicate that this was the copy of a young woman who attended the Episcopal Female Institute in Winchester, Virginia.
"This book will be found to be a convenient form in which to keep a record of one's commencement and all the interesting facts connected with it, including accounts of the exercises, brief sketches of the teachers, the classmates, newspaper clippings, etc The keeping of such a record will afford a great deal of entertainment, not only at the time when it is all fresh in mind, but in the future years, when it was served to recall many pleasant memories which otherwise would be forgotten."
~Quoted from the preface
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- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1097
- Title
- My Commencement: Being a record of the school, the faculty, commencement exercises, essays and operations, speeches, prizes, social events, subjects studied, the class motto, colors, flower and yell, the class history, poem and prophecy, my classmates, reunions.
- Author
- [Publishers’ Binding]. STEWART, Bertha (design & decoration), with frontis by Harrison Fisher
- Illustrator
- Bertha Stewart, Harrison Fisher
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1910
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Publisher's Binding, Bertha Stewart, Harrison Fisher, Episcopal Female Institute, Winchester, Virginia, Signed Binding
- Bookseller catalogs
- Women; Fine Binding;
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