#Joseph Pennell

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Joseph Pennell (American, 1857–1926) - New York Harbor at Dusk, with the Statue of Liberty

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Portrait of Miss Voss, Junction City, Kansas, 1896

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Publishers' Binding Thursday

I found this book while browsing the stacks in search of a good publishers' binding. This one does not disappoint! This is Italian Hours by American-British author Henry James, published in 1909 by Houghton Mifflin Co. Italian Hours is a book of travel essays about Italy, a country that James loved, that are considered very charming but not unrealistic. This edition features illustrations of Italian scenes by American etcher, lithographer, and illustrator Joseph Pennell.

The cover features a mosaic-esque design stamped in gold with a blue florals and flourishes and leafy green patterns. The book cloth is a brickish red-orange color and the spine features a motif similar to that of the front cover. There's nothing special about the endsheets, which is always a disappointment to me. I just wish more people paid attention to the endsheets! But otherwise it's a very nice binding.

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

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A young woman named Minnie Adams, Junction City, Kansas (1897) by Joseph J. Pennell

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The Guard Gate: Gatun Lock

Joseph Pennell

Medium: Etching on paper

Size: 12 7/16" × 9 1/2"

Date: 1912

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joseph pennell. st. paul’s from my window, 1909.

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Blue Night, London (circa 1894-1909)

Joseph Pennell (American, 1857-1926

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the art of assembling and exercising power || on quackity and ladders to the top

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Joseph Pennell

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Joseph Pennell - Reflective river (c.1921-26)

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'Blue Night, London'. Joseph Pennell. c. 1894-1909.

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Above: Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Thirty-Fourth Street and Fifth Avenue. Drawing by Joseph Pennell, between ca. 1904 and 1908

Below: Knickerbocker Trust Building and [Waldorf] Astoria, New York. Photo by Detroit Publishing Company, 1904

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Portrait of Mrs. Bradshaw (1923) by Joseph J. Pennell

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Edit after Joseph Pennell (St. Paul's, From My Window) (Smithsonian) (Ed. Lic.: CC BY-NC 3.0)