Aucassin & Nicolete
Title:
Aucassin & Nicolete
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.
Creator:
Lang, Andrew (Translator)
Publisher:
Thomas B. Mosher
Date:
1895
Coverage:
Portland, Maine
Display Date:
1895
Hover Text:
Sybil Pye — bookbinder
Published Item:
P
Item Index:
9
Item Sort:
Bookbindings
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