signed Leather bound
2008 · Bisbee, Arizona
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Bisbee, Arizona : Pequeno Press , 2008. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Very good. 179 pp., 2 x 2 1/2". Limited to 50 copies, this 1/50 bound in deep purple leather over boards with lavender paper label on spine, dimensional silver plate on front cover. Printed on Neenah recycled paper in Baskerville Old Face and Harrington types, hand sewn and signed by the publisher on the colophon. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810 - 1865), an English writer whose works explored the detailed life of the Victorian society, wrote a biography of Charlotte Bronte shortly after Bronte's death in 1855. Here, a distillation of the text. (Inventory #: 1825)