Robert Frost's bookplate and related ephemera
Today, March 26th, is the birthday of one of America's greatest poets. Robert Frost was born on this day in 1874. I recently acquired a copy of Frost's bookplate above while researching the bookplate's designer, J.J. Lankes , for a blog post about a Lankes letter, which will appear here soon. Lankes and Frost became friends and collaborators in the 1920s when Lankes created the woodcut print illustrations for Frost's New Hampshire (Henry Holt, 1923). That collaboration would continue over the next few decades. Goodspeed's Book Shop also featured some Lankes illustrations on the covers of their The Month at Goodspeed's publication for January 1943. Inside this catalog, offered for sale, are some of the woodcut prints that made it into Frost's New Hampshire , annotated with comments from Lankes. Below are some illustrations from my copy of New Hampshire , which I referenced in a post on the Archaeolibris blog several y...