The Service. Edited by F. B. Sanborn.

Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902.

Price: $650.00


About the item

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.