International studio (45.1912)

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THE INTERNATIONAL STUDIO

November, 1911

Mehlin & Sons

Art Pianos

For Prices, Terms and Art Catalog, write to

BRANCHES OR AGENCIES IN ALL SECTIONS OF THE COUNTRY

27 Union Square, N ew York

IN THE manufacture of Mehlin Art Pianos are used the
finest materials that money can huy and a great deal that
money cannot huy. The preeminence of these instruments
is due principally to their exquisite tone—it s peculiar to the
Mehlm. The name itself guarantees the highest quality of
workmanship and finish. The artistic designs, delightful tone,
responsive touch and magnificent wearing qualities make the
Mehlin the ideal piano for the',home.
We are prepared to execute orders for instruments of
special design to match any interior.


ORIENTAL RUG EXPERIENCE
"I bane no hesitation in saying it that your ad is as honest as Abe Lincoln’s
might be, and your rugs fully justify any praise you might give them. One cer-
tainly Would look long and far to find so choice a collection in the stores.”—
Opinion of America’s foremost collector.
Allow me to present you with my booklet showing still other proofs, and demon-
strating that you will not get best value until you see my rugs in your home—1 will
put them in your hands without obligation. My list describes many scores of gem
antique masterpieces. Write for it at once.
L. B. LAWTON, Major U.S.A., Retired, 120 Cayuga St., Seneca Falls, N.Y.

EASING HAND-BOUND BOOKS
Miss Rachel McMasters Miller’s
bindings, says a writer in the New York
Evening Post, show both an appreciation
of the adaptability of certain designs to
certain volumes and a fine sense of color-
ing and proportion. She has avoided the
all-too-prevalerit vice of overdecoration,
and some of the volumes show a finely
classic simplicity. All look like real books,
moreover—intended to be the gems of a
reader’s collection, rather than mere show-
case examples of the binder’s art.



RED MOROCCO BINDING
RACHEL M MASTERS MILLER

One of the volumes in which the subject
and binding are most closely wedded by
symbolism of design is “The Most Pleas-
ant and Delectable Tale of the Marriage
of Cupid and Psyches.” It is bound in red
morocco, upon which are diagonal lines of
gold tooling, broken by alternating butter-
flies and tiny hearts, stamped in gold. The
effect is unique. Another attractive book
is a slim copy of the “Song of Solomon,”
clothed in rich white leather, with a cen-
tral wreath formed of the interlacing of
purple grape clusters, pale red roses and
gold flowers.
“Amiel’s Journal” is bound in deep blue,
with wheel designs in gold at the center of
the covers, and a double line of gold near


HAND BINDING
RACHEL M MASTERS MILLER

the borders, terminating at each corner
in a small repetition of the central wheel.
Next to it is a copy of Stephen Phillips’s
“Paolo and Francesca,” in scarlet, with
dull gold lettering between the double
border lines, which reads: “0 Lasso!
Quanti dolci pensier, quanto disio meno
costoro al doloroso passo.”
Most appropriate is the binding of a
“Book of Common Prayer,” done in pure
violet morocco, with white leather linings