A lovely book

[luzula]

Look at my beautiful edition of Violet Jacob’s Flemington! ♥ It is not a first edition, since the book is from 1911 and this one is from 1915, but it has some lovely tree imagery imprinted on the blue cloth cover, on the end papers, and on the title page. This book is not at all hard to get hold of in general, since it is in print and is also on Gutenberg, but it is hard to get hold of old copies of it.

I'm not sure why the tree imagery--it doesn't correspond to anything in the book that I can think of. Maybe it's just decorative. But the title page would have fit in well with Flight of the Heron’s ‘roots of two trees growing towards each other in the dark’...

The book is dedicated to an Evelyn Frances Munro; I wonder who she was?

Comments

[the_siobhan]

Oh that's very pretty! I do love old books.

[luzula]

Me too! My current fandom is great for that.

[regshoe]

Aww, that is a beautiful book! I see what you mean about the two trees on the title page suiting Flight of the Heron better. :) Hmm, perhaps the ash-trees at Ardguys, where Archie sits and hides at the beginning of the book?

[luzula]

In that case the artist does not know what ash-leaves look like. *g* But the trees are beautiful, at any rate!

[regshoe]

In that case the artist does not know what ash-leaves look like. *g*

Hee, that's true :D Beauty over botanical accuracy here...

[edwardianspinsteraunt]

So pretty! I love old hardbacks from the 1900s and 1910s

[luzula]

Me too! And my current fandoms are great for that. : )

[osprey_archer]

What a beautiful book!

[luzula]

Yes! I'm very pleased.

[ysilme]

Oooh, what a lovely specimen and edition! ♥ Perhaps the tree motif is typical to the publisher?

[luzula]

Yes, I suppose that is also possible! I'm very pleased with having it in my bookcase, at any rate.

[regshoe]

My 1911 Chantemerle was also published by John Murray—it doesn't have these trees or any fancy endpapers/title page art, but there is some nice tracery on the cover in a similar style, so it is something they liked!

[hyarrowen]

That's beautiful! I do love the Arts and Crafts style.

[luzula]

Oh, is that what it's called? Thanks! I don't know much about art history... : )

[hyarrowen]

It's very much a British movement, I think. A reaction to the horrors of the high-Victorian style.

[chestnut_pod]

Wow, that is beautiful!

[luzula]

Yes! Very pleased to have it in my book case.

[nnozomi]

Oh, that's gorgeous! I love the coloring on the end papers. (As I'm sure you did, I googled Evelyn Frances Munro and got nothing, but thanks to her I learned about Evelyn Munro the union activist, which was kind of neat.)

[luzula]

Oh, that's cool about Evelyn Munro the union activist! Did not know about her either. I did find an Evelyn Frances Munro who was born in 1911 on a genealogy site, but she seems to have lived on Granada.

By the way, I got a postcard from you today! Thank you--it's always lovely to get something unexpectedly in the mail like that. : )

[scribe]

Oooh gorgeous!

[luzula]

Yes! Looking forward to eventually rereading the book from that edition.