Edmund Joseph Sullivan

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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Cover Design for Sartor Resartus
1898?
Pen and black ink touched with white, on poster board.
9 3/8 x 8 9/16 inches (238 x 217 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1764
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Inscription in pencil at foot, "Smaller lettering to be enlarged".

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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Sketch of a decorative design for the spine and front cover of an edition of Carlyle's Sartor resartus, published in London by George Bell & Sons in 1898 with illustrations by Sullivan; the design was evidently never used and bears no resemblance to the book's published binding design.

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