NATURE PRINTING / MAUCHLINE FERN WARE BINDING: Longfellow’s Poetical Works. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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NATURE PRINTING / MAUCHLINE FERN WARE BINDING: Longfellow’s Poetical Works. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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A handsome example of works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 1882), bound in a unique Mauchline Fern Ware Binding.

 

Small 8°, [8 pp.] with a portrait and coloured title with a guard, title, vi, 633 pp. with full page illustrations, golden edge, yellow endpapers, Mauchline fern ware boards with a portrait on the cover, green goat spine with gold lettering and decoration (spine and boards slightly scratched, hinges of the front endpapers cracked, minor foxing mostly to the first and last pages, old signature in black ink “Charles Thomas Brown, Sept. 1875” on the cover).

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Mauchline ware is a name for highly popular white-wood products of smaller dimensions, such as boxes, fans, vases and also book bindings, made between 1820s until 1939 in Mauchline in Schotland, by various companies. Book bindings were often decorated with engravings and photographs over natural-colour wood or traditional Tartan.

Fernware was introduced in the 1870s and soon became a popular decoration. The patterns were made by using real fern as stencils over sycamore wood and securing the shapes with colour and varnish, making a unique pattern on each object.

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