[Copeland & Day | Hand Colored] Arabella & Araminta Stories E-List 22 The smooth spine features a

The smooth spine features a large incised "Ellen Terry" in an olde English script

Some light rubbing to edges and spine

As this volume was in vellum wrappers in 1902

Full morocco doublures with floral and gilt ruled borders

"Sarah Wyman Whitman (1842–1904) was an influential Boston artist and civic leader

[Copeland & Day | Hand Colored] Arabella & Araminta Stories E-List 22 The smooth spine features aSmith, Gertrude. The Arabella and Araminta Stories. Boston: Copeland & Day, 1898. Introduction by Mary E. Wilkins. With fifteen black & white illustrations by Ethel Reed & striking pictorial endpapers printed in orange with repeating ARABELLA PICKED A POPPY border, also by Reed. All of the full page illustrations have been neatly hand colored in watercolor, with the colors applied in harmony with Reed's significant use of negative space. Original tan