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BOUND BY PRIDEAUX WITH AN AUTOGRAPH NOTE: "THE BEST FORMAL DESIGN I HAVE MADE" (BINDING.) Prideaux, Sarah Treverbian. An Historical Sketch of Bookbinding . . . With a Chapter on Early Stamped Bindings by E. Gordon Duff. Frontispiece. vi, [2], 303 pages. 8vo, 187x136 mm, black morocco gilt by Prideaux with frame of repeated stylized quatrefoils running between dotted fillets on covers, stamp-signed with her monogram and dated 1900 on rear lower turn-in; contents clean; gilt edges; 1/4 morocco folding case. London, 1893
first edition, bound by the author. Prideaux (1853-1933) was the foremost woman bookbinder of her time in England and by her own account the first to make a career of it; she also wrote extensively on the subject. Her historical survey includes an early bibliography of bookbinding literature, listing some 500 titles. with an undated autograph note signed by prideaux laid in. One page with integral blank, 12mo. In full: "This is one of the designs made for my book on binding. I consider it the best formal design I have made - on account of its being both simple & effective - a combination always tried for but not too often achieved. S. T. Prideaux."
