{"id":3811,"date":"2012-12-17T11:23:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T16:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=3811"},"modified":"2012-12-20T08:59:55","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T13:59:55","slug":"margaret-armstrong-binding-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=3811","title":{"rendered":"Margaret Armstrong Binding Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the fall of 2012, Special Collections & Archives mounted an exhibition celebrating the career of American book artist and author Margaret Armstrong (1867-1944) who worked in the medium of publishers\u2019 bindings, designing book covers and \u201cdecorating\u201d texts from 1890 through 1926. Armstrong began her thirty-year freelance career by creating covers for the McClurg Publishing Company in about 1890. Later in the 1890s, she began working for a variety of publishers including Scribner, a company for whom she designed half of her total output of more than 300 bindings between1890 and1940. Armstrong’s bindings and illustrations are usually identifiable by her monogram, “MA.”<\/p>\n

The George Mason University Libraries contains fifty of Margaret Armstrong\u2019s bindings, novels, and even her guide to western wild flowers.<\/p>\n

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An example of Armstrong\u2019s illustrations may be found in Paul Leicester "Ford\u2019s Love Finds the Way" (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1904), in which Armstrong decorates the text by surrounding it with flowers that differ in kind from page to page. Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Armstrong created a number of series of book cover designs such as a series for author Henry Van Dyke, represented here by his book, "Days off, and Other Digressions," (New York : C. Scribner\u2019s Sons, 1908). Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Margaret Armstrong books are part of a larger collection of decorated and signed bindings donated to George Mason University by Wendi D. Slagle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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