Arts and crafts binding (2 Ergebnisse)

An ambitious example of female amateur bookbinding, unusually executed on an 18th-century folio. The revivalist furniture on the boards is confident, but the pastedowns reveal that the binding was intended to be more imposing still. The front pastedown is inscribed by the elusive Dorothy Rowe above an elaborate pencil design for the front board; the rear has the beginnings of its counterpart. Folio (385 x 235 mm). Early 20th-century morocco, spine with raised bands, boards with large inner recessed panels, cornerpiece furniture inset with ivorine, front board with cross in relief, lettered in blind at head at foot, rear ruled in blind, metal clasps, leather straps lacking, pencil designs by binder to pastedowns. Contemporary partial inscription to title page. Spine ends worn, splits to head and foot of joints but firm, binding moderately marked and rubbed, paper repair to title page, contents slightly wormed. A very good copy.…

An elaborately bound scrapbook celebrating the charmed youth of a member of "one of Britain's most prominent Quaker industrial and political dynasties" (ODNB). It charts the childhood of Joy Frances Pease (1906-81), her travels in Europe and Britain, and her early married life in upper class society. The first 36 pages consist of photographs of Joy with her family, friends, and pets from birth until 1917. The manuscript captions note that many of the photographs were taken at home in Mowden Hall, Darlington, the family home designed by the great Gothic Revival architect Alfred Waterhouse. Many of the succeeding leaves are full of postcards from Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Cambridge, Oxford, and Exeter. In 1929 Joy married the businessman Eric Malcolm Fraser (1897-1960). The couple's invitation to Buckingham Palace, alongside theatre programmes and leaflets for the Chelsea Parliamentary Election, suggests their active social life in the capital and in local political circles. Although there are no notices of her own wedding, as a proud sister Joy has pasted in many newspaper clippings of the marriage of her sister Elinor to John Kemp, 1st Viscount Rochdale. Quarto (345 x 295 mm). With hundreds of pieces of ephemera including photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings, and theatre programmes mounted recto and verso of thick card stock on stubs. Original green crushed morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt dot-work decoration and blind-stamped foliate design with green, white, pink, and purple morocco onlay leaves and petals to compartments, corners of boards, and enclosing blind-stamped lettering to central board, metal clasps with elaborately wrought foliate design to front board, plaited leather ties (one lacking), wide turn-ins with blind-stamped rules and green morocco onlay petal designs, dotted pink silk endpapers, edges gilt. Front joint split at head and foot, small chip to foot of spine, boards bowed, binding lightly sunned with occasional faint marks, corners worn, endpapers and leaves cockled from glue. A very good example.…