and unquestionably showcasing the "personality" and "loving care" of Cady and Whitten's artistry
One of BR's 'chosen thirty'
Gold peacock feather on blue cloth over beveled boards
Cockerell notes that bindings signed with the 'WHS' stamp during this period [1905-1914] were specially designed by him" (Bookbinding in the British Isles)
text reads “From November the Ninth to the Twenty-fourth there will be an Exhibition… from the collection presented to the Club by David Wolfe Bruce
[Fine Binding | Ellen Gates Starr] The Ethics of the Dust E-List 22 and unquestionably showcasing the "personality"Ruskin, John. The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1867. Bound in full dark brown pigskin by Ellen Gates Starr in 1911, signed "E. G. S. 1911" on the rear turn in, featuring a fascinating geometric design of five rows of alternating inlaid red and blue diamonds, with a pattern of rows with groups of four blue diamonds between. Each row is decorated with and connected