[Copeland & Day | Hand Colored] Arabella & Araminta Stories E-List 30 remaining compartments with gilt ornament

remaining compartments with gilt ornament made up of small fleuron tools

flat spine also with triple gilt fillet borders and gilt title and author

The volume's design bears all of the hallmarks of Lorenz Schwartz's work for the Roycrofters

Rubbing to edges with darkening to gilt

[Copeland & Day | Hand Colored] Arabella & Araminta Stories E-List 30 remaining compartments with gilt ornamentSmith, Gertrude. The Arabella and Araminta Stories. Boston: Copeland & Day, 1898. Introduction by Mary E. Wilkins. With fifteen black & white illustrations by Ethel Reed & striking pictorial endpapers printed in orange with repeating ARABELLA PICKED A POPPY border, also by Reed. All of the full page illustrations have been neatly hand colored in watercolor, with the colors applied in harmony with Reed's significant use of negative space. Original tan