In the Summer Holidays

Brief description

Design for cover for Jennett Humphreys's book 'In the Summer Holidays', by the Silver Studio for Blackie & Son Ltd, 1897

Date

1897

Dimensions

height: 288mm
width: 255mm

Organisation

Blackie, London
Silver Studio

More details

This book cover was designed by the Silver Studio in 1896 for manufacturer Blackie & Son Ltd. The design shows the influence of well-known designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh, who used tall, long female forms in many of his designs in the late nineteenth century.

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