BINDINGS


TAGORE (RABINDRANATH, translator) One Hundred Poems of Kabir, LIMITED TO 750 COPIES, India Society, 1914--ELLIS (HAVELOCK) Sonnets with Folk Songs from the Spanish, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, Golden Cockerel Press, 1925--SHORT (E.H.) The Painter in History, P. Allan, 1929, coloured crushed morocco gilt, upper covers with wide decorative outer borders enclosing ornamental inner panel made up of numerous different tools, and flowers in gilt and coloured onlays, panelled spines with lettering and decorations, t.e.g.--KIPLING (RUDYARD) Songs from Books, green morocco gilt, g.e., covers with one vertical border of floral decorations in gilt with white morocco onlays, Macmillan, 1913, 8vo--The Book of Kells, text by Edward Sullivan, 24 colour plates, full green crushed morocco gilt, covers with 5-line fillet border, the upper cover enclosing a large Celtic design, g.e., 4to, Studio, 1914 (5)
|A collection of elaborately tooled bindings, three in a style typical of Sangorski & Sutcliffe, one to a "Celtic" design.Provenance: "Groupe II. Classe 9. Artisanal. Paris Exhibition"/"M.G. Robinson..., London, N.W.3... Price £6=6=0", label loosely inserted in one of the volumes.