"This comprehensive volume presents the biographies of 1,000 women who were active in the British decorative arts over the last few centuries ... All made valuable contributions in areas such as stained glass, metalwork, pottery, woodcarving, illustration, bookbinding and decoration, sculpture, decorative embroidery, decorative jewellery, and illumination."--Page 4 of cover.
"The works of Sarah Whitman, T. B. Hapgood, Amy M. Sacker, Marion L. Peabody, and Ethel Reed are well represented in the collection, as is the work of William A. Dwiggins, Bruce Rogers, the Boston publisher Copeland and Day, and the pioneering 19th-century Boston bookbinder Benjamin Bradley."
Blanche McManus was a book cover designer, illustrator, and author. Her husband was Milburg Francisco Mansfield, who wrote under the pseudonym Francis Miltoun and co-authored several books with McManus.
This collection contains Barbara Adams Hebard’s research on Bertha Stuart, a book cover designer active at the beginning of the twentieth century. Hebard gathered this material with the intent of writing a biography about Stuart. The research became the basis for an exhibit of Stuart’s designs that was featured in the Rare Books Department of the Boston Public Library entitled “A Fixed Rule of Design: The Book Art of Bertha Stuart”. The catalog for the exhibit, Hebard’s correspondence with historical societies, museums, and Stuart’s family as well as correspondence between Stuart and Henry Holt, her employer, is included.
Bertha was an artist from Boston who illustrated many children's books and also designed some covers for the same.
Until she married Edward E. Hoxie, she was credited (and signed her work as) Bertha G. Davidson, and sometimes used a "D" monogram, or a "BGD" monogram.. After her marriage, she was credited either as "Bertha G. Davidson", "Bertha Davidson Hoxie", or just "Bertha Hoxie". Her monogram also seems to have changed to an "H" or "BDH" at that point.
A designer about whom very little is known, and was previously identified only by his initials "BWT".
He also created designs for jewelry and hairbrushes. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island.
He eventually moved to Switzerland, and is noted as being in Montreux as of 1904. He died in Switzerland in 1931.
Aymer Vallance's monogram was identified from the initials designed by him for the work he authored on William Morris, "The Art of William Morris" published by George Bell and Sons in 1897.
A yet to be identified designer who used a monogram that resembles a rounded arrowhead, similar in shape to the Star Trek communicator badge. The actual letters used are an A and W, which are conjoined into one shape.