Creator
Catullus
Title
Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius.
Coverage
London
Publisher
Impensis G. Pickering
Date
1824
Subject
Binding by Henry Stikeman (Stikeman & Co.) ca. 1890
Description
This mosaic binding was first exhibited at the Grolier Club in December 1890, in the Exhibition of Recent Bookbindings. It was one of the first bindings exhibited under Henry Stikeman’s own name.
Catullus was exhibited again at the Grolier in 1902. Both times it appeared alongside another miniature, Cicero (see: French Book Arts Grolier, 2018), also by Stikeman, and both commissioned by Samuel Putnam Avery. Avery’s son donated virtually his entire library of miniatures to the Club…except this one.
Relation
From the collection of Jeffrey Stikeman