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ENGLISH BOOKBINDINGS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM & FOREIGN BOOKBINDINGS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM
-Lady Randolph Churchill’s Copy-
1895 & 1896
First English Edition Set [Number 156 of 500 copies]
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., Ltd. [London]
4to (Two folio volumes: 132 pages & 131 pages, illustrated with 131 color plates)
Hardcover [Blue cloth]
Item Number: 18167
Description
This lushly illustrated two-volume catalogue of bindings from the British Museum collection bears Lady Randolph Churchill’s name inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper of each book. Both volumes are in their original gilt-lettered, full blue-cloth bindings. The cloth is moderately shelfworn, with some rubbing to the edges. The contents are pristine, with a faint adhesion mark to one or two plates, else fine. Lady Randolph acquired these books to research bindings for her literary quarterly, The Anglo-Saxon Review, which she published from 1899-1901 with the help and guidance of her son, Winston.