Sybil Pye — bookbinder
- Creator(s):
- Lang, Andrew (Translator)
- Title:
- Aucassin & Nicolete
- Publication/Origin:
- Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1895
- Description:
- The English bookbinder Sybil Pye taught herself to bind using Douglas Cockerell's Bookbinding and the Care of Books. She began binding around 1906 and worked mostly independently, although she consulted with fellow artists Charles Ricketts and T. Sturge Moore. Her highly original designs, a precursor of Art Deco, tended toward linear, architectural, and geometric features, and often employed onlays. Pye completed 174 bindings during her prolific career. She worked through 1955. This volume has a Pye binding of gold and blind-tooled red goatskin.
- Citation:
- Lang, Andrew (Translator), Aucassin & Nicolete, Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1895, Lisa Unger Baskin Collection, Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Accessed September 09, 2024, https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/baskin/item/4305