Books and Manuscripts

London: George Bell & Sons, 1905. First and limited edition thus, #2/75 numbered copies printed on Japanese Vellum. 8vo. x, 402, 2 (ads) pp. From Bell's Endymion series of poets. Illustrated by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale. Bound in full scarlet morocco, elaborately gilt, with white leather onlay on front and rear boards; marbled endpapers; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; enclosed in a linen slip case and chemise; by Bennett. A fine copy.

A lovely example from The Bennett Book Studios, a fine book bindery in New York City established in the late 1920s by bookman and binder Whitman Bennett (1884-1968).

From the library of bibliophile and long-standing Grolier Club member David Allen Fraser (1911-2003).