Paul Leicester Ford, Love Finds the Way, 1904 Ad Astra, Selections from the Divine Comedy of Dante, 1902
Harold MacGrath. The Man on the Box, 1904 George W. Cable. Posson Jone and Pere Raphael, 1909
Myrtle Reed, Weaver of Dreams, 1911 Myrtle Reed, Threads of Grey & Gold, 1913
Mrs. William Starr Dana, According to Season, 1902 Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, The Militants, 1907
Henry Van Dyke, The Valley of Vision, 1919 Henry Van Dyke, The Blue Flower, 1904
John Greenleaf Whittier, The Tent on the Beach, 1899 Henry Van Dyke, Little Rivers, 1903
Margaret Neilson Armstrong, Field book of western wild flowers, 1915 Mrs. William Starr Dana, How to Know the Wild Flowers, 1896
Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, 1908 George W. Cable. Bylow Hill, 1902
Molly Elliot Seawell, Children of Destiny, 1903 Molly Elliot Seawell, The Chateau of Montplasir, 1906
Margaret Armstrong usually worked in a vocabulary of ornament, rarely producing a purely pictorial design. She too developed her own lettering and used cloths that were generally lighter in color than those which were in common use. As her style developed, Armstrong’s use of several colored inks on a cover increased, her ornaments became larger, and the covers became quite easy to see at a distance, a crucial factor in their role as advertisements.
In her mid-forties, Armstrong spent a few years travelling around the western United States. In 1911 she and some friends were the first women to descend to the floor of the Grand Canyon where Armstrong discovered some new flower species. A few years later she published Field Book of Western Wildflowers, which included over five hundred of her drawings.
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Margaret Neilson Armstrong
Margaret Neilson Armstrong (1867–1944) was a 20th-century American designer, illustrator, and author. She is best known for her book covers in the Art Nouveau style but also wrote and illustrated the first comprehensive guide to wildflowers of the American west. She also wrote mystery novels and biographies.
