[Rarebooks] Offered: Some minor arts as practiced in England 1894

[Nina W. Matheson]

Friends and Colleagues

Offered for your consideration:

Some minor arts as practiced in England. London, Seeley and Co. 
Limited, 1894..Original gold-stamped green cloth, bevelled edges, 
t.e.g. Folio. Lightly rubbed, otherwise fine, bright. First edition. 
82 pp. Includes a section on English bookbindings by W. Y. Fletcher 
divided into three parts: I. The Middle Ages to the Reign of Queen 
Elizabeth. II. Elizabeth to Charles I: with some notices of earlier 
Royal Bindings. III. King. Charles to the Present Time. The Fletcher 
section is illustrated with 6 pp. of color plates of bindings, plus 
illustrations in the text. The book also treats English work in 
impressed horn, Old English pottery, Old English fruit trenchers, 
English effigies in wood, and English enamels.  (65498) 
$150.00.  Usual trade terms. Postpaid in the U.S.



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