A binding by Paul Woodroffe for <span

class="book">‘The Little Flowers of St. Benet. (original) (raw)

Binding

Paul Woodroffe; signed ‘PW’.

1901

Olive green cloth with a gilt pattern.

8 x 5¼ inches

Another of Woodroffe’s elegant Art Nouveau cloth bindings. The impact of the Celtic Revival is registered in his use of the never-ending interlace, a visual metaphor signifying the perpetual recurrence of life.

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Photograph and text by Simon Cooke

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