International studio (15.1901/1902(1902))

American Studio Talk

Miss Christine Waterman a desk blotter of excellent
workmanship.

We will next review the bookplates and illumina-
tions, leaving the cream of the feast to the last; for
the Wednesday Club being a literary club, the book-
bindings mean more to them than anything else.

bending over a tall jar; a design for wall papers,
and on a most graceful stencil curtain, of blue and
white, birds in conventional design.

And now for the bindings, amidst which were
two or three sacred things. A shabby, thick old
book when opened bore this inscription : “ From

FROM THE EXHIBITION OF THE PHILADELPHIA PHOTOGRAPHIC SALON
“ BILLY ” BY FRANCIS WATTS LEE

There were four bookplates by Miss Grace
Hazard, and three finely wrought ones by S. P.
Annan. A poppy panel of one single poppy,
poster style, by Josephine Barnard, showed a close
attention to nature with no loss to the decorative
effect. Rhoda Chase’s originality was shown in a
fine “ poster for china shop advertisement,” a clever
creation in good colors picturing a quaint girl

the library of William Morris at Kelmscott House.”
It was an “ Albertus Magnus.”

The next surprise was to find some bindings by
Cobden Sanderson. An “Alice in Wonderland ”
a beauty in blue levant with inlays of diamond-
shaped red, and the gold tooling on that looking
like another inlay. Even the inside edges had the
pretty red inlaid design, and the whole book’s

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