Sarah T. Prideaux — bookbinder and scholar
- Creator(s):
- Lefroy, Edward Cracroft
- Title:
- Echoes from Theocritus, and Other Sonnets
- Publication/Origin:
- London: Elliot Stock, 1885
- Description:
- Scholar, lecturer and writer Sarah T. Prideaux was one of the first English women to make bookbinding a career. She taught binding and lectured on its history, amassing a significant collection of books, catalogues, and ephemera documenting the subject. In 1900, with Katharine Adams, she printed her Catalogue of Bookbindings (also in the collection) on her own hand press. This 1894 Prideaux binding is done entirely by her own hand in brown goatskin, blind and gold tooled. The design is of heart-shaped flowers on delicate stems. The spine titling is in her typical disposition of type, flush left.
- Source:
- Prideaux, Sarah T. A Catalogue of Books Bound by S.T. Prideaux Between MDCCCXC and MDCCC with Twenty-Six Illustrations. London: This Catalogue was Printed by S.T. Prideaux and K. Adams, 1900
- Citation:
- Lefroy, Edward Cracroft, Echoes from Theocritus, and Other Sonnets, London: Elliot Stock, 1885, Lisa Unger Baskin Collection, Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Accessed September 09, 2024, https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/baskin/item/4291