Guild of Women Binders:: The Bindings of To-morrow. A Record of the Work of the Guild of Women-Binders and of the Hampstead Bindery with a Critical introduction by G. Elliot Anstruther

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Guild of Women Binders: : The Bindings of To-morrow. A Record of the Work of the Guild of Women-Binders and of the Hampstead Bindery with a Critical introduction by G. Elliot Anstruther

4to. Number 167 of 500 copies. pp. xxxii + 50 superb colour-printed plates interleaved with explanatory text, trivial spotting. Contemporary chocolate morocco, ambitiously elaborate onlaid design within gilt-tooled frame on the covers, spine lettered direct, upper joint renewed; vellum doublures and relatively restrained gilt-ruled turn-ins and hinges. Almost certainly bound by an unidentified member of the Guild of Women Binders.

Founded in 1898 by bookseller Frank Karslake, the Guild of Women Binders operated until 1904 as a loose confederation of established female binders from various groups such as the Chiswick Art Workers' Guild and the Edinburgh Arts and Crafts Club, with Karslake organizing exhibitions and sales from his shop on the Charing Cross Road and through Sotheby's. A number of outstanding female binders were represented by the Guild, and it also provided the opportunity for amateurs to study under established male binders such as Douglas Cockerell. Anstruther's introduction to the present work identifies the laudable long term goal of opening up a new career for women in addition to the, overcrowded professions of teaching, dressmaking, type-writing and the like

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