Creator
William Matthews
Title
Modern Bookbinding Practically Considered: A Lecture read before The Grolier Club of New-York, March 25, 1885
Coverage
New York
Publisher
The Grolier Club
Date
1889
Description
Matthews created this binding for Samuel Putnam Avery in 1890, the year of his retirement, and it is likely his final masterpiece. The buff crushed goatskin is in a design alluding to Jean Grolier’s interlaced styles of titling on the front cover and ownership inscription on the rear cover, the interstices filled with myriad gilt small tools. It is printed on vellum by Theodore Low De Vinne; Avery kept it throughout his life, bequeathing it to his granddaughter.
Source
Gift of Amy Welcher, 1992.
Format
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