[Binding, Fine- Arts & Crafts] The Sonnets

Birmingham: Birmingham Guild of Handicraft, 1895.

Large 8vo. (8.7 x 7 inches). A provocative and decidedly Arts and Crafts full brown morocco binding with attractive gilt-stamped multiple convex spaces filled with thick dots, rose at each corner with leaf designs and a striking central block of six gilt rectangles getting smaller and smaller as they move toward the center. Spine with five raised bands, the edges of which are ruled in gilt. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Hand marbled endpapers. Turn-ins with gilt-ruled borders and floral corner pieces An attractively decorated book with decorative wood-cut Initial letters and borders throughout. Some page edges still unopened. Binding and contents near fine.

Price: $1,500.00   Item #3610