Binding for Richard LeGallienne's “The Quest of the Golden Girl” (original) (raw)

Binding for “The Quest of the Golden Girl”

Will Bradley, designer

1896

Dark-green flat-weaved cloth; front cover with gilt-stamped repetitive stylized profile within swirls, and titling; rear cover without decoration; spine with gilt-stamped repetitive stylized profile within swirls, and swirled ruled panels with titling.

195 x 122 x 28 mm.

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Photograph and text from The Art of Publishers' Bookbindings, 1815-1915

With thanks to Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Lervin

References

LeGallienne, Richard. The Quest of the Golden Girl. Illustrated by Edwin Austin Abbey. London, New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1896. Printer: The University Press, John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Morris, Ellen K. and Edward S. Lervin. The Art of Publishers' Bookbindings, 1815-1915. Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles: William Dailey rare Books, 2000. No. 70.

Last modified 17 January 2014