Item #317740 The Service. Edited by F. B. Sanborn. Binding, Henry David Thoreau.
The Service. Edited by F. B. Sanborn
The Service. Edited by F. B. Sanborn
The Service. Edited by F. B. Sanborn

The Service. Edited by F. B. Sanborn.

Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902.

No. 458 of 500 copies. [31] pp. Printed at the Merrymount Press. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary tan pigskin, ruled in blind, boards with a central field bordered in blind and semé with gold dots, a.e.g. Front board detached BAL 20138; Smith, Merrymount Press, #138; Tidcombe, Women Bookbinders 1880-1920 pp. 179-180. Item #317740

"an unfinished binding done by me at Miss Emily Preston's bindery, N.Y. Patty P.L. Sesler" and below in another hand J.S. Brown.
Emily Preston was a Cobden-Sanderson student who ran a bindery at 223 East 17th St., NYC and was one of the founders of the Guild of Bookworkers in November, 1906.

Price: $650.00 Free International Delivery