A binding by Charles Ricketts for ‘The Pageant’ (original) (raw)

Cloth binding for ‘The Pageant’

Charles Ricketts

1897

Cloth binding with gilt overlays

10¼ x 7¾ inches

A simple pattern which encapsulates the magazine's elegant combination of art and literary reviews. Only two volumes were issued, in each case including a dust-wrapper, also by Ricketts but different from the cloth design shown here.

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Photograph and text by Simon Cooke

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