[Woolrich, Ellen G.]

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12mo. [134 x 74 x 17 mm]. [75]ff. Bound c.1905 by Ellen G. Woolrich (signed in gilt on the rear turn-in) in brown niger goatskin, the covers with a gilt double fillet border and on the front cover a lozenge-shaped centrepiece with green goatskin and vellum onlays and the initials H.G.B. The spine divided into six panels with gilt compartments, the bands extending with blind tooling onto the covers, the turn-ins and matching inside joints gilt tooled with three fillets and four roundels in each corner, plain green endleaves, gilt edges. (A number of the small vellum onlays missing, a little rubbed and slightly dulled). "Ellen (Nelly) G. Woolrich probably learned to bind from Cockerell or from Sangorski and Sutcliffe. She was working at 5 Bloomsbury Square where she exhibited in the A&CES exhibition in 1903 and in Antwerp in 1904. She and her sister Sofita were Americans living in England, and later on, up until 1915, they employed George Fisher to bind books to their design" - Tidcombe, "Women Bookbinders, 1880-1920", p.173.

• GBP 250.00 > other currencies
• ordernr.: ebc2341

• bookseller: George Bayntun (GREAT BRITAIN)