The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
London: Macmillan and Co., 1899. Full leather binding, reddish-brown morocco boards decorated with three tall stylized flower stems in blind with darkened floral heads and small gilt dots. Similar tooling repeated on the spine titled “Shelley’s Works”; all edges trimmed, patterned endpapers in soft yellow, pink, and gray tones. Executed for the Guild of Women-Binders, with the stamp “Guild of Women-Binders” in gilt at the lower turn-in of the marbled pastedown. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Shelley with tissue guard. Leather shows some speckling, a few small surface marks, and minor wear to extremities. Frontispiece leaf with tidemark in upper margin and some offsetting to the facing page.
The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, first published in 1890, this copy is a later printing some nine years later rebound by the then newly formed Guild of Women-Binders. The Guild operated only from about 1898 to 1904, promoting and training women to enter the field of bookbinding. Case 1.. Very Good. Item #604
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