Lost Endeavour.
London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Leeds,, and New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, (1910).
Price: $750.00
About the item
First edition. Color frontispiece, portrait of the author. 381, [3] pp. 8vo. Full brown crushed morocco, with onlaid man in turban and pillar on front cover, spine titled in gilt, raised bands, gilt turn-ins, t.e.g., by The French Binders, Garden City, NY. Fine, with publisher's cloth covers bound in at rear. Provenance: Nelson Doubleday (presentation from author, bookplate).
Item #306460
Presentation copy, inscribed to Nelson Doubleday by Masefield.
The French Binders traces its lineage back to The Club Bindery, founded in 1895 by members of the Grolier Club to provide exceptionally fine binding for American collectors. The Club Bindery moved to Cleveland, where it was successively renamed the Rowfant Bindery (1909-1913), the Booklover's Shop (1914-1917), and finally, The French Binders (1918-1920s), as in-house bindery to Doubelday in Garden City, New York.
