Highly professional layouts
Flat poster style
Ungrained book cloth
Classic Roman lettering
Soft and clean cover designs
Signed designer bindings
The virtual disappearance of bookcloth with noticeable
      grains and patterns
Poster-style covers

1) Green, Anna Katharine.  The circular study.  New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1900.  Gift of Mrs. Maxim Karolik.  Gold and black stamping on green rib grain cloth.  Signed binding?  Could the inserted end of the key be initials?  The grain of the cloth has found favor from the beginnings of stamped cloth bindings.

2) Andrews, William Loring.  Jean Grolier de Servier.  Viscount D'Aguisy: some accounts of his life and of his famous library.  New York: The De Vinne Press, 1892.  Estate of Roderick Terry, Jr., from the library of Roderick Terry.  Gold stamping on blue silk grain cloth.

3) Parson, Frances Theodora.  How to know the ferns: a guide to the names, haunts, and habits of our common ferns.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899.  Gold, brown and green stamping on brown calico-texture cloth, not embossed.  Signed binding: MA for Margaret Armstrong.