Songs of Life by Ella W Wilcox, 1900
Songs of Life by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Published around 1910 by Collins’ Clear Type Press, London (no date). A rare edition with art nouveau style cover art. The book cover is beige with a textured, basket-weave look. The center block is bright pink. The gilt title and cover border are darkened. The cover corners are lightly bumped. The book is flat. Size: 5.85 x 4.25”. Free U.S. shipping applied at checkout.
Songs of Life by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Published around 1910 by Collins’ Clear Type Press, London (no date). A rare edition with art nouveau style cover art. The book cover is beige with a textured, basket-weave look. The center block is bright pink. The gilt title and cover border are darkened. The cover corners are lightly bumped. The book is flat. Size: 5.85 x 4.25”. Free U.S. shipping applied at checkout.
Songs of Life by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Published around 1910 by Collins’ Clear Type Press, London (no date). A rare edition with art nouveau style cover art. The book cover is beige with a textured, basket-weave look. The center block is bright pink. The gilt title and cover border are darkened. The cover corners are lightly bumped. The book is flat. Size: 5.85 x 4.25”. Free U.S. shipping applied at checkout.
The paper on the backstrip is pulling away in many areas. The back cover is beige and textured. The endpapers are marbled with pastel colors. There is heavy foxing on a pre-title page. The frontispiece and title page are loose together. The title page and frontispiece have bright colors. The book has two additional full-page color illustrations. The interior pages are moderately tanned with foxing throughout. The song headers have illustrated headers throughout. The interior pages are crisp / stiff. The pages are not numbers (around 40 pages).
