Design by Alice C. Morse for a Series of Books by H. A. Guerber

Since the publication of The Proper Decoration of Book Covers: The Life and Work of Alice C. Morse, I have discovered additional book cover designs, design variants and adaptations. This beautiful design adorns the covers of a number of books by H. A. Guerber. One set with this binding about opera are Stories of the Wagner Opera and Stories of Famous Operas and Stories of Popular Operas. This set was popular and reprinted at least once, issued in the same binding and color scheme. While the cover is unsigned, its design was attributed to Morse in a Dodd Mead publications list in Ian Maclaren's Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush, 1895.

Titles seen in this binding to date (as of April 2016) are:

Stories of the Wagner Opera. 1895. (green cloth)
Stories of Famous Operas (green cloth)
Stories of Popular Operas. 1904. (green cloth)
Legends of Switzerland. 1899. (brown cloth)
Legends of the Virgin and Christ. 1901. (blue cloth; red cloth)
Stories of Shakespeare's Tragedies. 1911. (green cloth)
Yourself. 1902. (green cloth)



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