Candle-Lightin' Time
New York: Dodd Mead & Co., 1901. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [14], 15-127, [1] pp. Green publisher's cloth with gold lettering and gold decorations on the front board and spine, front board also with stamped white, black, and maroon decorations and lettering; top edge gilt. Title page lettered in red and black. Illustrated with full-page black and white photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club and with decorations by Margaret Armstrong. Armstrong also did the decorations for the binding. BAL 4937. State of HBCUs Blog, "Black and Red at Hampton Institute: Indian Education and HBCUs". The photographs decorating this volume come from students at the Hampton Institute, an HBCU in Virginia, founded just after the U.S. Civil War. Several of the photographs depict Black Americans engaging in daily activities such as baking, riding horses, fishing, arranging flowers, playing music, etc. This volume is a stunning collaboration between Dunbar, a prominent and influential writer, and the widely collected graphic designer, Margaret Armstrong. Near Fine. Item #000014468
A bookplate on the front pastedown, else a beautiful example.
Price: $300.00