[Fine Binding | Modeled Leather] Dialstone Lane E-List 37 front cover with elaborate gilt

front cover with elaborate gilt frame

Helen (1868-1949) quickly developed a passion for the craft of book-making and became an expert in hand-printing techniques

Folder with some light creases to sides

Spine with four bands and large lower compartment richly gilt with leaves

[Fine Binding | Modeled Leather] Dialstone Lane E-List 37 front cover with elaborate giltJacobs, W. W. Dialstone Lane. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1905. "Copyright Edition." A modeled leather binding, bound in full tan calf, with the upper cover in low relief with a painted figure of a portly sailor; the title Dialstone Lane and authors name incised at head and fore edge; binders initials PH stamped below the sailor's foot. Smooth spine with the title and author lettered in gilt; gilt rolled turn ins, plain endpapers, top edge gilt.