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Tidcombe, Marianne.
The Bookbindings of T. J. Cobden-Sanderson. A Study of His Work 1884-1893 Based on His Time Book (British Library Add. MS. 49061) With a Biographical Introduction.
Publisher: The British Library, London;
Date of Publication: 1984
Stock Code: 14177
First edition. Octavo, pp., xii, 407, [1]. 169 bibliographical entries, each with full-plate black-and-white photograph, frontispiece plate in full-colour; further photographs within text. Publisher’s umber cloth; titled in gilt to spine; original brown slipcase. Small, unobtrusive white scuffs to boards, otherwise a near-fine copy. A bibliographical study of Cobden-Sanderson’s bindings before the foundation of the Doves Bindery in 1893. Thomas James Cobden Sanderson (1840-1922) would become a leading practitioner in the Arts and Crafts movement as the founder of the Doves Press, but this book details his earliest craft output. Persuaded by Jane Burden (1839-1914), later wife of William Morris (1834-96) to take up bookbinding, Cobden-Sanderson left legal practice in 1884 to work as a binder. In 1887 he founded the ‘Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society’, which gave the movement its name. This volume provides a biographical introduction, detailed descriptions, photographs, and indices to those bindings that Cobden-Sanderson produced in his early years as a full-time practitioner. £80.00