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William Edward Bloomfield Starkweather illustrated and designed cloth binding covers for many books from about 1892 to 1918.

Starkweather designed bindings and illustrated books during the Golden Age of Commercial Cover Design and Illustration (1880's through 1915).

Some of Starkweather's books would be considered classic Edwardian and classic Victorian Design.

WEB Starkweather mostly created for R.F. Fenno and Co. at East Sixteenth Street, in New York City.
 
There are more than 60 books, and possibly over 80 which he designed bindings for or created interior illustrations for with his many trademark signatures or monogram, S, W.S., WEBS or WEBStarkweather.
 
In several books, he added a two page pine cone line drawing as the front and rear endpapers in either green ink on white paper or brown ink on white paper.

In some books he created marginal drawings on each of the pages in the book.
 
The March of the White Guard is a perfect example of William Starkweather endpapers and marginal drawings.

Our current list of books is very impressive and continues to grow with your support.

Below are a few examples of his work.

Endpaper illustration, WEBStarkweather 1902
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Friendship by Ralph Waldo Emerson















1892  The Soul of Lilith by Marie Corelli, Grosset and Dunlap.
1894  The Deemster by Hall Caine, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1895  A Little Wizard by Stanley J. Weyman, R.F. Fenno and Co. 
1895  Strange Secrets by A. Conan Doyle, R. F. Fenno and Co.
1895  The Mystery of Cloomber, by A. Conan Doyle, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1895  The Nurnberg Stove by Ouida, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1895  The White Company, A.Conan Doyle, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1897  Let Us Follow Him, Henryk Sienkiewicz, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1897  The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Edward Fitzgerald, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1897  The Splendid Spur by Q, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1898  Peggy of the Bartons by B.M. Croker, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1899  The Hoosier School Master by Edward Eggleston, Grosset and Dunlop.

1899  What Cheer, The Sad Story of a Wicked Sailor by W. Russell Clark, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1900  Hypatia by Charles Kingsley, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1902  As A Man Thinketh, by James Allen, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1902  Bootles’ Baby: or Mignon by John Strange Winter, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1902  Friendship by Ralph Waldo Emerson, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1902  Open-Air Boy by G.M.A. Hewett, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1902  Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson, R.F. Fenno and Co.

1902  The March of the White Guard by Gilbert Parker, R.F. Fenno and Co.

1902  Thelma, A Society Novel by Marie Corelli, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1902  Thelma, A Society Novel by Marie Corelli, Grosset and Dunlap
1902  The Wages of Sin by Lucas Malet, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1903  The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1903  The Massarenes by Ouida, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1904  A Window in Thrums by J.M. Barrie, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1904  Balthazar the Magus by Albert Van der Naillen, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1904  Brakespeare, or the Fortunes of a Free Lance by George A. Lawrence, McLeod and Allen
1904  Crecy, by Edith Lawrence, F.M. Buckles and Co.
1904  Ishmael by E.D.E.N. Southworth, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1904  Jewel Mysteries by Max Pemberton, R.F. Fenno and Co. 
1904  Modern Arms and a Feudal Throne by Milner T. Harrison, R.F. Fenno and Co.

1904  Self-Raised or From the Depths by E.D.E.N. Southworth, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1904  The Choir Invisible by James Lane Allen, Macmillan Co.
1904  The First Violin by Jessie Fothergill, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1904  The King of the Missing Links by Phillip Verrill Mighels, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1904  The Last Sentence by Maxwell Gray, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1904  The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, R. F. Fenno and Co.
1904  The Pride of Jennico, by Agnes and Egerton Castle, The MacMillan Co.

1904  The Stowmarket Mystery, or a Legacy of Hate by Louis Tracy, R.F. Fenno and Co.

1904  The Two Orphens by Adolphe D’Ennery, R. F. Fenno and Co.
1904  Uncle Tom’s Cabin by H. Beecher Stowe, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1905  Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush, Ian Maclaren, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1905  Black Butterflies by Berthe St. Luz, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1905  A Son of Hagar by Hall Caine, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1905  Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1905  New Grub Street by George Gissing, R.F. fenno and Co.
1905  The Crimson Blind by Fred White, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1905  The Little Minister by J.M. Barrie, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1905  The Serf: A Tale of the Times of King Stephens, by Guy Thorne, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1905  Thelma, A Society Novel, by Marie Corelli, R.F. Fenno and Co.

1906  Captured: The Story of Sandy Ray by Charles King, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1906  Miss New York by Edmund Blair Pancake, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1906  Reveries of  a Bachelor, Ik Marvel (Donald Grant Mitchell), R.F. Fenno and Co.
1906  Thelma, A Society Novel, by Marie Corelli, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1907  By a City Grate by Ik Marvel (Donald Grant Mitchell), R.F. Fenno and Co.
1907  Evening by Ik Marvel (Donald Grant Mitchell), R.F. Fenno and Co.
1907  Morning by Ik Marvel, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1907  Noon; from Reveries of a Bachelor, by Ik Marvel (Donald Grant Mitchell), R.F. Fenno and Co.
1907  Over A Wood Fire, from Reveries of a Bachelor, by Ik Marvel, R.F. Fenno and Co

1907  Over His Cigar, by Ik Marvel (Donald Grant Mitchell), R.F. Fenno and Co.
1907  Thelma, by Marie Corelli, R.F. Fenno and Co.
1910  File No. 113 by Emile Gaboriau, R.F. Fenno and Co..

1930  Home and Field Magazine, Christmas, December, Volume 40, Number 12, Field Publications Inc.

This is a partial listing of the books William Edward Bloomfield Starkweather designed covers for or illustrated.

A more complete list with photos and descriptions will be published in the forthcoming book about William E.B. Starkweather. 

We are actively seeking to purchase, As A Man Thinketh by James Allen and Black Butterflies by Berthe St. Luz, as well as any binding covers monogramed or interiors illustrated by Starkweather, but not on this page.
 
Some of these books are available for purchase through this web site.

Signed illustration WEBStarkweather 1902
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Thelma by Marie Corelli















Monogram WEBS on the lower right corner
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Cover of File No. 113 by Emile Gaboriau

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Cover of Thelma 1905 version
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WEBS monogram, lower left hand corner

WEBS in lower design area
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WEBS embedded in the decorative border on every page

Co Credited for illustrations
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Excellent illustrations by Starkweather

WEB Starkweather frontispiece
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Green binding Uncle Tom's Cabin

Evening by I.K. Marvel
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Classic Starkweather cover

W.S. signature by Starkweather
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From the cover of Evening

Self Reliance by R.W. Emerson
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Classic Starkweather cover design

Wisteria flower design
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Used in other Starkweather cover bindings

If you have additional information about William Starkweather or the books he illustrated and designed bindings for, we would like to add the information to the web site.
Contact us at starkweather@williamstarkweather.com




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