Studio- Talk
and yel add a warning
against copying its alpha-
hot in any other material.
r
u.y,i £ 11It*|illfi 1 Tl 1 ^«mif)r
*=I-—,
Miss Birkcnruth's book-
bindings arc not unfamiliar
to readers of The Studio.
The few specimens here
reproduced have been <
chosen from a really de-
lightful collection of charm-
ing objects in leathei memorial tablet in beaten copper by edith and nelson dawson
daintily set out in her
" bindery" at 89 Cromwell
Road. The "Herrick "(page 115) is in violet Room Ballads, by Rudyard Kipling, is, as it should
morocco with doublure of green morocco, bearing a be, of sterner design. The back and the upper
rich conventional border worked in gold. The side have red and white roses inlaid on blue
lettering is perhaps a little too "picturesque" morocco. The under cover has a device not worthy
to satisfy a purist in such matters ; but no motto of its place. Pictorial symbolism is rarely corn-
could be more appropriate for the lyrics, which, mendable upon leather bindings, but if employed
from the time the Hesperides was first known, have one asks that it shall be decorative in composition
retained the hearts of their lovers. The Guest as well as purely conventional in design.
Book, with its motto, " Welcome the coming, speed -
the parting guest," is in primrose morocco, inlaid The most striking novelty which Miss Birken-
with florets in pink, which colour supplied the ruth has produced, like many so-called novelties,
groundwork of the bordei design. The Barrack- finds precedent in the earliest examples of the craft.
■ mmiiiii 11*111
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bookbinding
BY MISS BIRKBNRUTH
and yel add a warning
against copying its alpha-
hot in any other material.
r
u.y,i £ 11It*|illfi 1 Tl 1 ^«mif)r
*=I-—,
Miss Birkcnruth's book-
bindings arc not unfamiliar
to readers of The Studio.
The few specimens here
reproduced have been <
chosen from a really de-
lightful collection of charm-
ing objects in leathei memorial tablet in beaten copper by edith and nelson dawson
daintily set out in her
" bindery" at 89 Cromwell
Road. The "Herrick "(page 115) is in violet Room Ballads, by Rudyard Kipling, is, as it should
morocco with doublure of green morocco, bearing a be, of sterner design. The back and the upper
rich conventional border worked in gold. The side have red and white roses inlaid on blue
lettering is perhaps a little too "picturesque" morocco. The under cover has a device not worthy
to satisfy a purist in such matters ; but no motto of its place. Pictorial symbolism is rarely corn-
could be more appropriate for the lyrics, which, mendable upon leather bindings, but if employed
from the time the Hesperides was first known, have one asks that it shall be decorative in composition
retained the hearts of their lovers. The Guest as well as purely conventional in design.
Book, with its motto, " Welcome the coming, speed -
the parting guest," is in primrose morocco, inlaid The most striking novelty which Miss Birken-
with florets in pink, which colour supplied the ruth has produced, like many so-called novelties,
groundwork of the bordei design. The Barrack- finds precedent in the earliest examples of the craft.
■ mmiiiii 11*111
LR|MANf\LLJN(NCi5
flRLTt1EL0NL|5 LOVL
JHL.OTHLf\l5Wflr\
bookbinding
BY MISS BIRKBNRUTH