Binding for “The Romance of Zion Chapel”

Will Bradley, designer

1882

Black flat-weaved cloth; fornt cover with gilt-stamped ruled borders and surrounds, vignette is stylized figures with flowers and arrows, stylized cross, crown, heart and arrow device, and titling; rear cover without decoration; spine with stamped stylized cross, roses, dove and arrow decorations and dove devices, and titling,

195 x 122 x 27 mm.

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Photograph and text from The Art of Publishers' Bookbindings, 1815-1915

With thanks to Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Lervin