Crafts Binding (4 results)

Condition: Fine. First Edition. Contemporary full green morocco signed binding by Truslove & Hanson of Sloane Street in arts and crafts style. All edges gilt; spine with raised bands dotted in gilt; compartments ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt. Regiment's motto Quo Fata Vocant (Whither the Fates call) tooled on front cover in gilt. Double dentelles, marbled endpapers. A lovely, well preserved copy.

Reprint. Quarto (20 x 26cm). Handsomely bound in contemporary full blue morocco with sinuous gilt borders and gilt foliate decoration incorporating red morocco onlays representing berries to the boards, the spine with five raised bands, ruled in gilt and with titles in gilt. Gilt dentelles incorporating red morocco onlays. Binder's signature in gilt to the bottom turn-in of the lower board: "ML 1930". All edges gilt. Attractive colour woodblock-printed floral endpapers. Binder's inscription in pencil to the front endpaper: "Bournville School of Art 1930, M. Laud[?], Oct / '30". Illustrated with 24 tipped-in colour plates (with captioned tissue-guards), 12 full-page tinted illustrations, and numerous black and white in-text illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 549pp. A very good copy, the binding square and tight with fading to the spine and some minor scuffs to the raised bands. The contents remain clean and crisp throughout. An appealing copy of Arthur Rackham's edition of 'The Ingoldsby Legends', splendidly bound in the Arts and Crafts Movement style by a student or teacher at the Bournville School of Art, Birmingham. The grand hall which housed the Bournville School of Art was the first public building in Bournville, the model village founded by the Cadbury family. In line with typical Arts and Crafts Movement ideals, and with a specific aim to further the ideas and principles of John Ruskin, the school was originally conceived as a social centre for the village, offering a practical and artistic education for the community. It became more formalised as a 'School of Arts and Crafts' in 1911, later becoming an art college in the 1920s. As a city, Birmingham served as an important centre of the Arts and Crafts movement, with the 'Birmingham Group' of artist-craftsmen cultivating their own distinct style. Predominantly based around the Birmingham School of Art and the Birmingham Guild of Handicraft, the leading figures of the group included Joseph Southall, Arthur and Georgie Gaskin, Bernard Sleigh, Maxwell Armfield, and Charles Gere. An uncommon example of a bookbinding emanating from the dynamic atmosphere of Birmingham's Arts and Crafts Movement.

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.

Arts & Crafts Binding (illustrator). 12mo. suede, metal edges and hinges, floral design on front cover, suede endpapers. 16 pages. A collection of poetry, brief comments, and quotations concerning friendship. Title in red and black with title vignette, ornamental border, and quotation of Robert Louis Stevenson. From 1898 to 1903, David Paul Elder (1872-1948) and Morgan Shepard (1865-1948) formed a partnership which published 40 books, most of which were illustrated in the Art Nouveau style. They also operated the Book and Art Shop on Post Street in San Francisco. Shepard left the firm in 1903 to pursue an artistic career in Europe, after which the firm continued as Paul Elder and Company. Bound by Charles Frederick Eaton of Santa Barbara, California. Eaton (1843-1930), by trade a landscape architect, was also well known as a designer who led a group of associate craft workers at "The Arts and Crafts" in Santa Barbara. In addition to his bindings, Eaton's shop produced all sorts of crafts, including trays, lamps, screens, and other items, in addition to book bindings. Gustav Stickley referred to Eaton's productions as "peculiar objects of household decoration" ("Nature and Art in California" in The Craftsman, Joly 1904, 388). This binding is suede with two hinges and metal edges with a floral motif in the center of the front cover. That design is of acorn shells, metal, and mother of pearl in its center. Eaton's name and firm on back free endpaper. suede, metal edges and hinges, floral design on front cover, suede endpapers.