Hake's

Binding for Thomas Hake's ‘Parables and Tales’

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, designer

1872

Dark green publishers' cloth with an elaborate gilt overlay. A famously beautiful, emblematic binding; one of the rarest Victorian books of its type.

7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches

Photograph and text by Simon Cooke.

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