Echoes from Theocritus, and Other Sonnets
Title:
Echoes from Theocritus, and Other Sonnets
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.
Creator:
Lefroy, Edward Cracroft
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
Publisher:
Elliot Stock
Date:
1885
Coverage:
London
Display Date:
1885
Hover Text:
Sarah T. Prideaux — bookbinder and scholar
Published Item:
P
Item Index:
2
Item Sort:
Bookbindings
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