SIGNED BY A FEMALE BINDER
A treasury of seventeenth century english verse: form the death of shakespeare to the restoration (1616-1660).
London.
Macmillan and Co., 1919.
8vo.
xxiii, 399pp, [1]. With a tipped-in errata slip. Modern gilt-ruled brown morocco, T.E.G., signed 'Katharine Pountney' to rear lower turn-in. A trifle rubbed and marked, spine lightly sunned. Marbled endpapers.
An anthology of seventeenth century poetry, handsomely bound by American-born bookbinder Katharine Pountney [née Chandler] (b. 1898), recorded as operating in London into the 1930s, though otherwise for whom biographical details are frustratingly scant.
The British Library hold an example of Pountney's work (Book Binder Index Vol. 17, p.30).
£ 750.00
Antiquates Ref: 29139
The British Library hold an example of Pountney's work (Book Binder Index Vol. 17, p.30).
