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Hard cover, 8vo, in publisher's green cloth, with titles in gold blocked to the spine, tissue-guarded frontispiece halftone of St. Cuthbert's Gospel, 303 pp. Printed by Richard Clay and Sons, London and Bungay. **CONDITION: Very Good. Front hinge starting. Rear hinge cracked but holding firm. Some marks to rear board. Spine sunned, with gilt tiles faded, head beginning to fray. One small bubble front cover. Some pencil ticks and a few ink ticks within text. Moderately age toned. Former owner's name to ffep and bookplate to front endpaper; see interesting bookish provenance below. **A concise history describing the aspects of the bookbindings of Europe, and Great Britain from the Middle Ages through the early twentieth century, glossary of technical terms, chapter on embroidered bookbindings, and a selection of early documents relating to the craft. Also with extensive bibliography of books on the history of bookbinding. **AUTHOR, London-born bookbinder, book historian and first woman to teach bookbinding, SARAH TREVERBIAN PRIDEAUX (1853-1933) has long been considered one of the top practitioners of her craft in British women bookbinding circles of the Arts and Crafts era of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Briefly educated at Newnam College, Cambridge, she left to care for her ailing father, and pioneered this as a viable career for women. Her works are highly collectible artistic bindings, (some designed or finished by others,) which although not exhibited at British Arts and Crafts Society Exhibitions, were shown abroad at the Columbian World's Fair Exhibition in Chicago of 1893, and others shows. Her work is often mentioned among that of other skilled practitioners Katherine Adams and Sybil Pye, the former once her student. Her bookbindings are included in many institutional holdings. Her own binding of her personal copy of this book is illustrated in Fig. 59 of M. Tidcombe's Women Bookbinders 1880-1920), p. 106. See also S. T. Prideaux," A Catalogue of Books Bound by S. Prideaux" for illustrations of her work. (Bronxville, NY: N. Smith, 1979).** INTERESTING PROVENANCE: Signed by W.R.B. [William Reginald] B. Prideaux (1880-1932), British librarian associated with the Library of the Wellcome Collection in the mid 1920's. Also, Ex-Collection of George Martin Cunha, with his bookplate. Cuhna was also a librarian, and author, with his wife Dorothy, of "LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CONSERVATION: 1980s AND BEYOND" (Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1983.) (AMJ)
Ref: FINE 9780
$150.00