Olive Lothrop Grover and an unusual stamping effect

Olive Lothrop Grover

[signed with OLG monogram]

The Spirit Guest 

by Josephine Rand

Revell,1899

with the dust jacket (missing some pieces), featauring the same design:

Unusual cover material and appearance.  An embossed pattern high-finish paper with random-grain pattern. It looks like the ink, which is a split fountain, is stamped into the paper about halfway the depth of the emboss, which seems to have squished the ink to fill the embossment like little micro-cups, making it darker in those spots, and creating a halftone effect. The ink would need to have exactly the right viscosity to achieve this. Revell used this technique on other titles, and also on pebble-grain cloth. An example is the M. A. Lathbury design on Mary Dickenson, From Girlhood to Motherhood, [n.d., c.1899], and Revell used it on a Hazenplug design they recycled for various titles over the years, sometimes using this technique and sometimes printed flat.  Detail of the above design is below. Click any image to see it larger.

Mary A. Lathbury

[signed MAL]

From Girlhood to Motherhood

by Mary Lowe Dickinson

Fleming H. Revell Company, n.d.  ©1899