[Fine Binding | Arts & Crafts] The Augustan Books of Poetry E-List 13 Bound by Birdsall of Northampton

Bound by Birdsall of Northampton (though unsigned) in three-quarter dark blue morocco over light blue cloth boards ruled in gilt

flanked by one or more watercolor miniatures and sprays of foliage

A beautiful example by the binder long associated with being the first member of the staff of the Club Bindery (along with Frank Mansell)

Stiff yapp edge Japan vellum boards with title in gilt to front cover

Audubon here gives a detailed description of the country traversed

[Fine Binding | Arts & Crafts] The Augustan Books of Poetry E-List 13 Bound by Birdsall of NorthamptonThe Augustan Books of Poetry [Francis Thompson; Christina Rossetti; Walter de la Mare]. London: Ernest Benn Ltd., [late 1920s early 1930s]. Three Benn Augustan Books (Francis Thompson, Christina Rossetti, and Walter de la Mare) bound together in one volume. Bound in full dark brown crushed morocco, covers with a simple gilt lattice of single fillets intersecting with four small gilt leaves at each of the intersections. Five bands to spine, lettered