Examples of Victorian and Edwardian leather bindings

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••• = Member of the the Guild of Women Binders

A Few Previctorian examples

• Thomas Moore's Lalla Rookh, 1822
• Goldsmith's Works, 1825
• An apprentice's copy of The Whole Duty of Man, 1828
• Roger's Italy, 1830

Birmingham Guild of Handicraft

• Shakespeare's Sonnets (1895)

D. Y. Cameron

• Chaucer (c. 1900)
• Ruskin's Lectures on Art and Literature by D. Y. Cameron (c. 1900)

E.J. Cobden-Sanderson

• Chaucer (1) (c.1897)
• Chaucer (2) (c.1897)
• Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon (c.1897)
• Dante
• Ecce Mundus, Industrial Ideals and the Book Beautiful (1902)

Florence de Rheims•••

• Picturesque Westminster, Being a Collection of Sketches Illustrating Historic Landmarks and Places of Interest in the Ancient City of Westminster (1902)

Frank Garrett

• Shakespeare's Sonnets (1895)

Captain Gladstone

• for Andrew Lang's Grass of Parnassus (1888)

Guild of Women Binders

• Introduction
• English Lyrics from Spencer to Milton (1898)
• Binding for Cowper's Diverting History of John Gilpin

A. Harding

• The Percys (1910)

L. Hay-Cooper and S. Barnard

• Morris's The Hollow Land (c. 1903)

Mrs. V. B. Hone

• Binding for unknown work (1917)

Constance Karslake•••

• Binding for Frank Gunsaulus's Songs of Night and Day

C. B. Lawrence

• Barrie's Peter Pan in Kensington Garden (1906)
• Shelley's Tour1910)

Eleanor Kelly

• Binding for unknown work (1917)

Messrs Kelly and Sons

• Alphabets (1895)
• Binding for unknown title (1895)
• Binding for Tennyson's Poems — The Moxon Tennyson (1862)

Madame Le Lacheur

• Chaucer’s The Prologue to the Tales of Canterbury (1897)

D.S. and E. M. MacColl

• Robinson's The Viol of Love (c. 1897)
• Binding of unidentified work (c. 1897)

Francis H. Newberry

• Comic Almanack (c. 1900)

Florence Paget

• Tennyson's Poems, Vols. I and II (1907)

John Ramage

• Palgrave's Golden Treasury (1904)

Charles Ricketts

• E. B. Browning’s Sonnets (1897)

B. Riley, designer, and executed by J. Davidson

• Binding (1905)

Riviere & Son

• A. C. Swinburne’s Atalanta in Calydon (c. 1895)
• Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900, ed. A. Quiller Couch (1912)

Mary G. Robinson

• Poems by William Wordsworth (1910)

F. Sangorski

• Fifty Songs by Thomas Campion
• Tooled leather binding with braised closures

F. Sangorski and G. Sutcliffe

• Charles Dickens’s Pickwick Papers
• P. B. Shelley’s “Rosalind and Helen>

P.A. Savoldelli

• Sir John Skelton’s Charles I

Alfred de Sauty

• The Book of Common Prayer (1910)

Helen Scholfield •••

• More English Fairy Tales (1910)

C. J. Sketchley and E. Gertrude Farran

• Shakespeare's Sonnets (1910)

G. Sutcliffe

• Binding with leaf motif
• Binding, Morris's News from Nowhere
• Binding, Blades's The Enemies of Books
• Binding with central flower motif
• Binding, Henry James's A Little Tour in France
• Binding with two central flower motifs

W. G. Thomas

• Early edition of The Merry Wives of Windsor
• Early edition of The Merry Wives of Windsor

Joseph Zaehnsdorf

• Eve's West Indies (c.1889)
• Thornton's Memories of Seven Campaigns (1895)

Miscellaneous Victorian and Edwardian bindings

• Coulter's Adventures on the Western Coast of South America (John Kelly, 1847)
• Carlyle's Works, 1858
• Milman's Early Christianity, 1867
• The Holy Bible (1880)
• The Kelmscott Press Chaucer, 1897
• Art Nouveau Elektroplated Silver Book Cover, 1896
• W. R. Lethaby's Mediaeval Art, from the Peace of the Church to the Eve of the Renaissance 312-1350 (the Club Binder, 1906)
• The Shorter Poems of Robert Bridges (1891)

Examples from the Continent

• Les Types de Paris (Rafaelli, Paris)
• Binding (Prouvé of Paris)
• Binding (Rafaelli, Paris)
• Binding with woman and lilies (Prouvé of Paris)
• Binding with irises (René Wiemer, Nancy France)
• Binding with bas relief man's face (René Wiemer, Nancy France)
• Binding with standing woman and flowers (Raparlier of Paris)
• Binding (H. Van de Velde, Brussels, Belgium)
• Binding (designed by G. Heilmann and executed by Anker Kyster, Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Binding (designed by Bindesböll and executed by J. L. Flyge, Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Binding, Allen's Histoire de Danemark (designed by Bindesböll and executed by J. L. Flyge, Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Binding, Aladdin (designed by Bindesböll and executed by Anker Kyster, Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Binding (designed by Hans Tégner and executed by L'École du Livre, Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Binding (designed by Hans Tégner and executed by Anker Kyster, Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Binding (designed by Hans Tégner and executed by J. L. Flyge, Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Binding (designed and executed by Anker Kyster, Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Binding (designed and executed by Anker Kyster, Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Binding (designed by Hans Tégner and executed by Anker Kyster, Copenhagen, Denmark)

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