216pp. Notes and index. Beautifully illustrated story of Jessie Willcox Smith, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Violet Oakley and the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts. Starts with the Academy's centennial. The Red Rose Girls studied under Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute. Lovely illus. of drawings of children. (Loc 852/1)
Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The book details the unconventional lives of three women in the early 20th century, who ran a house called the Red Rose Inn on Mainline Philadelphia. Within this environment they collaborated and exchanged ideas as illustrators, writers, cooks, gardeners and women's rights activists. Dust jacket has some shelf-wear to the top and bottom edges. The top corners are a little bent and the spine has a crease from a sticker on the top edge. The hardcover book has a dent to the bottom edge of the back cover and the top edges are slightly bent. Pages are clean and unmarked.
Size: 10x8x0; As new clean tight and bright and signed (no inscription) by the author on the half title page. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos.
216pp. Notes and index. Beautifully illustrated story of Jessie Willcox Smith, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Violet Oakley and the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts. Starts with the Academy's centennial. The Red Rose Girls studied under Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute. Lovely illus. of drawings of children. (Loc 852/1)
Size: 10x8x0; As new clean tight and bright and signed (no inscription) by the author on the half title page. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos.
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