Author: Bruce, Wallace
Title: Old Homestead Poems
Publication Information: New York; Harper Brothers, Franklin Square 1888
Call #: PS1146 .B5 O5 1888
Book Size: 23 cm (H); 17 cm (L); 2 cm (spine)
Cover: green cloth; bevelled edges; front has title in white letters on golden rectangle (as if green coming through the gold - and note edges of the rectangle, to create the illusion of depth); on top of the rectangle, graphic of old homestead embossed in brown, silver, gold (again, green seems to come through); under title - a graphic of a teapot, embossed in brown and gold, with silver steam. Back cover - bevelled edges, plain otherwise. Spine: title, W. Bruce (both gilt); graphic of a lantern; Harpers at the bottom of the spine; consistent in style with front cover.
Inside Book Covers: plain brown pages
Paper Edges: unadorned
Illustrations: opposite the title page: woman spinning "I hear the humming of the Wheel"; paper between illustration and title page; includes a list of illustrations
Comments:
- dedicated to mother (and note "My Mother" in Gothic font), rest of dedication in capitals
- contents
- note the poems - some on Burns, Longfellow, Mary Stuart; Juliet to Romeo, Antony to Cleopatra, etc.
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- Late 19th-Century American Text Production
- Literary Appropriations
- Canonicity
- Nostalgia
