World-Noted Women; Or, Types of Womanly Attributes of All Lands and Ages
- Hardcover
- New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1858
A lovely Arts and Crafts binding in full Niger Morocco in a medium brown color. Spine in six compartments with nicely spaced gilt titles in two. Blind tooling along the bands and onto the boards in a suggestion of clasps. The boards, both upper and lower, with gilt and blind rules in a pleasing rectangular design interrupted by a "Noveau-style" design on the binding side with gilt curves ending in gilt leaves and dots. Simple parallel gilt line inner dentelles with box-shapes and blind dots at the corners of the inner line, peach water-color endpapers, all edges gilt. A sumptuous binding. The pastedowns have been nicely repaired, occasional trace of foxing not affecting the images, else this is in fine condition.
Unsigned binding, though almost certainly the work of the Guild of Women Bookbinders based on the design and the tools used.
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Details
Title
World-Noted Women; Or, Types of Womanly Attributes of All Lands and Ages
Author
(Guild of Women Binders) Clarke, Mary Cowden
Binding
Hardcover
Condition
Near Fine
Publisher
D. Appleton and Company: New York
Date
1858
Edition
First edition