A binding by Charles Ricketts for Tablay, Lord de [Warren, John Leicester's] 'Poems Dramatic and Lyrical’ (original) (raw)

Cloth binding for Tablay’s ‘Poems’

Charles Ricketts

1893

Cloth with gilt overlays

7¾ x 5 inches

A fanciful, luxurious binding, heavily patterened in gilt and issued in several colours. The light shown blue here is the most common. Once again, Ricketts emphasises the pattern over any other information.

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Photograph and text by Simon Cooke

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