Author: Van Dyke, Henry
Title: Days Off and Other Digressions
Publication Information: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons MDCCCCVII
Call #: PS3117 .D3 1907
Book Size: 19.5 cm (H); 13 cm (L); 3.5 cm (spine)
Cover: Navy blue cloth; front cover: embossed gold with light blue, green, and white (often blue showing through the white); note "M.A." (probably "Margaret Armstrong") on the bottom of the front cover). Floral design, referencing stained glass windows. Plain back cover. Spine: gold design cognate with cover. "Days Off" and author's full name on spine in gold; faded "Scribner's at the bottom of the spine
Inside Book Covers: plain paper
Paper Edges: top gilt; side and bottom plain
Illustrations: list of illustrations (eight total); frontispiece opposite title page (protective paper in between). "Our canoes go with the river, but no longer easily or lazily"; picture of canoes on river, rocks prominent in the foreground, stark tree.
Comments:
- the Roman numerals should be MCMVII
- the title page: "Days Off " and New York " in red ink, and the rest in black ink. (Need to run through the press twice then). There's an epigram from Emerson on the title page "I do not count the hours I spend/In wandering by the sea." a poem of two stanzas, eight lines, ABAB rhyme scheme)
- Front Ad: Books by Henry Van Dyke Published by Charles Scribner's Sons. Titles, whether or illustrated, prices (generally $1.50 or 51.00 each)
- WVU Rare Book Room has a series of Van Dyke's books, also with navy and gold, and cognate patterns - as if marketing a series, or developing a style for Van Dyke to market his works.
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- Early 20th-Century American Text Production
- Marketing