half leather, gilt-stamped cloth
1897 · London, England
London, England: J.S. Virtue & Co, 1897. half leather, gilt-stamped cloth. 4to. half leather, gilt-stamped cloth. iv, 384, viii, 31+(1) pages. New series. Table of contents, general index to articles and text illustrations, list of artists whose work was reproduced in this volume, list of contributors to signed articles. With several articles on bookbinding, particularly of note Art Workers at Home by Fred Miller (page 14-17). Includes articles mentioning promonent women-binders, such as Mary Ann Bassett (page 17), Alice Shephard (page 317) and Johanna Birkenruth (page 380). Frontispiece, black and white plates and illustrations throughout text. Inside hinges cracked. Light foxing on endpapers and around edges of frontispiece.
(Inventory #: 134308)