Cloth binding for Tablay’s ‘Poems’
Charles Ricketts
1893
Cloth with gilt overlays
7¾ x 5 inches
A fanciful, luxurious binding, heavily patterened in gilt and issued in several colours. The light shown blue here is the most common. Once again, Ricketts emphasises the pattern over any other information.
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Photograph and text by Simon Cooke