[Grolier Club | Ephemera] Catalogue of Decorated Early English Bookbindings Private Press giving a stained-glass effect

giving a stained-glass effect

head and tail pieces will be applied in accordance with the custom in vogue before the days of printing" (New England Stationer and Printer)

A Collection of Original Contributions in Prose and Verse

A very scarce BR "incunabula" title

[Grolier Club | Ephemera] Catalogue of Decorated Early English Bookbindings Private Press giving a stained-glass effectCatalogue of Decorated Early English Bookbindings: Exhibited at The Grolier Club, 1899. New York: The Grolier Club, 1899. Printed cream wrappers, cover within an ornamental red border and with a decorative C initial; edges untrimmed. Issued for the Clubs exhibition of English bindings from Tudor through late seventeenth century examples drawn from member and institutional collections. Some light toning to covers and edges. Together with an original