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THE WORKS OF ALFRED LORD TENNYSON.
(London: Macmillan and Co., 1902). 192 x 123 mm. (7 1/2 x 5"). viii, 900, [2] pp.
LOVELY RED CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT AND INLAID, BY ALICE PATTINSON (rear turn-in stamp-signed with her cipher and dated 1904), covers framed by gilt and inlaid white morocco roses, raised bands, spine compartments with interlocked Tudor roses, gilt lettering, turn-ins with triple gilt fillets, blue endpapers and flyleaves, all edges gilt. Engraved portrait frontispiece. Front flyleaf with pencilled inscription identifying binder by her maiden and married names. Tidcombe, "Women Binders," p. 170, Plate 44. Spine just slightly and evenly sunned, one corner gently bumped, but a fine copy, clean and fresh internally, in a shining binding with virtually no wear.
This attractive edition of the complete works of the beloved poet laureate comes in a lovely binding by Alice Pattinson, who trained with the great Douglas Cockerell. She took over his premises when he moved out of London in 1902, and hired forwarder Elsé Hoffmann and finisher George Fisher, who presumably did the finishing here to Pattinson's design. Formerly of Riviere, and one of the best at his craft in England, Fisher would later spend more than two decades as the chief binder at the Gregynog Press in Wales. According to Tidcombe, Pattinson's work was done "to a very high standard," and her bindings were pictured in "Art Workers Quarterly," "Art Journal," and "The Art of the Book." She was a regular exhibitor at the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society's events, and also exhibited in Leipzig and Frankfurt. (ST19788)
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