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Title
Back cover and spine
Collection

Daphnis et Chloé

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1910
Library locations
Spencer Collection
Shelf locator: Spencer Coll. French 1890+
Topics
Romances, Byzantine
Genres
Book covers
bindings (gathered matter components)
Notes
Content: Binding, by Mercier, 1910, of blue crushed levant morocco, gilt. Sides tooled with a frame composed of fillets of different colored leather surrounded by a deep lace work border and enclosing a center panel filled with a mosaic inlay, the interspaces tooled and inlaid with flowers and foliage of different colors. Doublé with light brown morocco within a border of small tools. Center panel within a fillet of the Greek key pattern enclosed in a scroll work border inlaid in dark red morocco, with small ornaments and fleurs-de-lys inlaid at the corners. Back tooled, lettered, and inlaid in colors. With gnt edges, marbled end papers, and lining of dark brown grosgram silk. Original covers bound in. In blue morocco box lined with old rose plush.
Type of Resource
Still image
Languages
French
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b16833796
Other local Identifier: for Hartley & Marks
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 65130090-5c3f-0131-8a67-58d385a7bbd0
Rights Statement
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Item timeline of events

  • 1910: Created
  • 2014: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

Spencer Collection, The New York Public Library. "Back cover and spine" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1910. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/78e01760-5c3f-0131-7385-58d385a7bbd0

Chicago/Turabian Format

Spencer Collection, The New York Public Library. "Back cover and spine" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/78e01760-5c3f-0131-7385-58d385a7bbd0

APA Format

Spencer Collection, The New York Public Library. (1910). Back cover and spine Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/78e01760-5c3f-0131-7385-58d385a7bbd0

Wikipedia Citation

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Back cover and spine