Creator
Oscar Kuhns.
Title
Switzerland. Its Scenery, History, and Literary Associations.
Coverage
New York:
Publisher
Thomas Y. Crowell Co.,
Date
ca. 1910.
Subject
Gift of Linda Wilson.
Description
RBS’s teaching collection includes hundreds of bindings designed by Margaret Armstrong (1867–1944), who hailed from an established and well-connected New York family. Between 1890 and 1913, Armstrong designed more than three hundred book covers for several different American commercial publishers. She sometimes signed her designs: this copy of Kuhns’s guide to Switzerland is signed “MA” in the lower right-hand corner of the upper cover. Armstrong’s designs were most often ornamental in nature and botanical in inspiration. The Alpine landscape shown here is one of the few examples of pictorial motifs found among her book covers.
Source
From the collection of Rare Book School