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Dodge Publishing Company
New York, 1895-1928
Founded in San Francisco 1895 as Dodge Book and Stationary Co.; moved to 317 Broadway, New York 1898; to 150 Fifth Avenue as Dodge Publishing Company. Calendar and gift book publisher. (DLB49). Taken over 1928 by Robert M. McBride & Co. (Brief Studies). 1902 United States Catalog. Lucile. (Book-lover Books). lea[ther]. $2. '01. (Green bk. ser.) bds. 25c. '01. 1912 Lucile. ooze lea[ther]. $2. 1928 Lucile. lea[ther]. $3.
All Dodge editions appear to have as their text block the 1889 Stokes & Brother "Vignette" edition with illustrations by Frank M. Gregory, printed on a heavy, calendared paper, and an inserted Dodge titlepage. A single binding design -- a title vignette stamped in gold -- is illustrated PTLA 1914-1928. The same (or similar) design seems to have been executed in ooze leather, "brocade leather" [probably a mottled leather], and "leathercraft".
1905-1908 PTLA: Lucile. With numerous illustrations. The best edition in print. 5 1/4 x 8 ooze leather, $2.00.
1909-1913 PTLA: A charming edition of this favorite poem with over one hundred illustrations by Frank M. Gregory. 5 1/2 x 8 Ooze Leather, $2.00.
1914-1916 PTLA: as 1913. (Cut of Lucile).
1917-1918 PTLA: as 1916. Leathercraft. $4.00 net. (Cut).
1919 PTLA: as 1918. Ooze Leather, $2.50 Net; 3/4 Leather $2.50 Net; Leathercraft $4.00 Net. (Cut).
1920-1921 PTLA: as 1919. Ooze Leather, $3.00 Net; 3/4 Leather $2.50 Net; Leathercraft $5.00 Net. (Cut).
1922-1923 PTLA: as 1919. Ooze Leather, $3.00 Net; 3/4 Leather $3.00 Net; Brocade Leather $3.00 Net. (Cut).
1924-1928 PTLA: as 1923. Ooze Leather, $3.00 Net; Brocade
Leather $3.00 Net. (Cut).
Known copies:
----, 23 East 20th Street, nd. 135x185mm. Frontispiece: "I am told
you are going to marry Miss Darcy." Green limp ooze with title
vignette in gold. Metalic endsheets. Teg with fore- and bottom edges
untrimmed. Block is Stokes edition on calendared paper; titlepage on
a different paper. BAP; Notre Dame.
----, 33rd St. Eighth Avenue 34th St., nd. 135x190mm.
Frontispiece: "I am told you are going to marry Miss Darcy."
[Brocade leather?]. University of Idaho.
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