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  • Collection: [1902] Home Book Co. Reprint, Version 2

Frontispiece to Volume 2 of the [1902] Home Book Co. Reprint, Version 2 Depicting a Cottage

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This black and white image from the 1902 Home Book Co. Reprint is a photograph of a cottage. This frontise is actually a photograph of a country cottage, surrounded and covered by foliage and flora. It is a two story cottage, and with hill surrounding the backgrond.

Subjects: Cottage

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Identifier: 69CIA_14

Title Page Vignette to Volume 2 of the [1902] Home Book Co. Reprint, Version 2 Depicting a Woman Gathering Flowers

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This dark green and white vignette is from the second volume of the 1902 Home Book Co. Reprint. This depicts a woman gathering flower, dressed in a white Roman-esque stola, carrying a bouqet of wildflowers in one hand, and picking more flowers with her other. Hair is pulled bakc, but is worn down. Behind her is a darker background of trees and wild grass. She is framed by a Roman styled border, laurel leaves and filigre surrounding the bottom, and festooned banner surrounding the books title, author and edition information in red script above her head. The publisher information below her in black script, surrounded by filigree.

Subjects: Woman Gathering Flowers

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Identifier: 69CIA_16