Author: DICKENS, Charles; GUILD OF WOMEN BINDERS, The; CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator
Title: Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, the
Description: London: Chapman & Hall Ltd. 1890. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club In a Fine Binding by The Guild of Women Binders DICKENS, Charles. GUILD OF WOMEN BINDERS, The. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. With illustrations. London: Chapman & Hall [n.d. ca. 1890]. Two octavo volumes (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 216 x 140 mm.). [i-vii], viii-xvi, [2, list of illustrations, verso blank], [1]-471, [1, imprint] pp.; [i-v], vi-viii, [2, list of illustrations, verso blank], [1]-491, [1,blank] pp. Forty-three engraved plates by George Cruikshank including two frontispieces and engraved title. Bound by The Guild of Women Binders (stamp signed in gilt on front turn-in). Full red Morocco, covers bordered in gilt, with four gilt floral decorations. Spines with five raised bands decoratively tooled in gilt in the Art Nouveau style with hearts and flowers, lettered in gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Armorial bookplate of Adam Rivers Steele on front paste-down. Half-title to volume one slightly creased. A fine copy. The Guild of Women-Binders was an organization founded to promote and distribute the work of women bookbinders at the turn of the 20th century. It was founded by Frank (Francis) Karslake in 1898, and disbanded in 1904. It helped sell bindings produced by women binders already practicing, and instituted training programs to teach other women. Frank Karslake was a London bookseller, and a founder and financial backer of the Hampstead Bindery. At the 1897 Victorian Era Exhibition at Earl's Court, he encountered several bindings by women, including Annie S. Macdonald, on display, and his interest was piqued. Soon after, he invited several women binders to exhibit their work in his London shop; this "Exhibition of Artistic Bookbinding by Women," which ran from November 1897 to February 1898, garnered a substantial amount of interest from the public, and convinced him that promoting women's bookbindings could be a profitable venture, if perhaps partially for the novelty. Whatever his motivations, Karslake soon began acting as an agent to women binders already practicing, such as Annie MacDonald and Edith and Florence de Rheims. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) is the first novel by English author Charles Dickens. His previous work was Sketches by Boz, published in 1836, and his publisher Chapman & Hall asked Dickens to supply descriptions to explain a series of comic "cockney sporting plates" by illustrator Robert Seymour, and to connect them into a novel. The book became a publishing phenomenon, with bootleg copies, theatrical performances, Sam Weller joke books, and other merchandise. .
Keywords: GUILD OF WOMEN BINDERS, The CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator Illustrated Books Fine Bindings Books into Film Nineteenth-Century Literature
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Title: Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, the
Description: London: Chapman & Hall Ltd. 1890. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club In a Fine Binding by The Guild of Women Binders DICKENS, Charles. GUILD OF WOMEN BINDERS, The. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. With illustrations. London: Chapman & Hall [n.d. ca. 1890]. Two octavo volumes (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 216 x 140 mm.). [i-vii], viii-xvi, [2, list of illustrations, verso blank], [1]-471, [1, imprint] pp.; [i-v], vi-viii, [2, list of illustrations, verso blank], [1]-491, [1,blank] pp. Forty-three engraved plates by George Cruikshank including two frontispieces and engraved title. Bound by The Guild of Women Binders (stamp signed in gilt on front turn-in). Full red Morocco, covers bordered in gilt, with four gilt floral decorations. Spines with five raised bands decoratively tooled in gilt in the Art Nouveau style with hearts and flowers, lettered in gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Armorial bookplate of Adam Rivers Steele on front paste-down. Half-title to volume one slightly creased. A fine copy. The Guild of Women-Binders was an organization founded to promote and distribute the work of women bookbinders at the turn of the 20th century. It was founded by Frank (Francis) Karslake in 1898, and disbanded in 1904. It helped sell bindings produced by women binders already practicing, and instituted training programs to teach other women. Frank Karslake was a London bookseller, and a founder and financial backer of the Hampstead Bindery. At the 1897 Victorian Era Exhibition at Earl's Court, he encountered several bindings by women, including Annie S. Macdonald, on display, and his interest was piqued. Soon after, he invited several women binders to exhibit their work in his London shop; this "Exhibition of Artistic Bookbinding by Women," which ran from November 1897 to February 1898, garnered a substantial amount of interest from the public, and convinced him that promoting women's bookbindings could be a profitable venture, if perhaps partially for the novelty. Whatever his motivations, Karslake soon began acting as an agent to women binders already practicing, such as Annie MacDonald and Edith and Florence de Rheims. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) is the first novel by English author Charles Dickens. His previous work was Sketches by Boz, published in 1836, and his publisher Chapman & Hall asked Dickens to supply descriptions to explain a series of comic "cockney sporting plates" by illustrator Robert Seymour, and to connect them into a novel. The book became a publishing phenomenon, with bootleg copies, theatrical performances, Sam Weller joke books, and other merchandise. .
Keywords: GUILD OF WOMEN BINDERS, The CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator Illustrated Books Fine Bindings Books into Film Nineteenth-Century Literature
Price: US$ 1800.00 Seller: David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)
- Book number: 06155
- Book number: 06155
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