Creator
Sarah Orne Jewett.
Title
Betty Leicester: A Story for Girls.
Coverage
Boston and New York:
Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin and Company,
Date
1890
Subject
Cover design by Sarah Wyman Whitman.
Description
Of the 250 covers attributed to the Bostonian Sarah Wyman Whitman (1842-1904), only 14 bear her monogram. In Betty Leicester, by close friend Sarah Orne Jewett, the “SW” monogram is found within a heart at the base of a stylized flower. The lettering design and the use of two cloth colors are distinctive of Whitman’s book cover art. Other Whitman bindings in my collection evoke Japanese stab bindings and early Western book furniture, such as clasps and hinges.
Source
From the Collection of McKey Winston Berkman