Queen Mary: Signed binding. [John F] Grabau
by Tenyson
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
QUEEN MARY
Tennyson, Alfred
London, Henry S King & Son.
1875 1st ed
[BINDING] GRABAU Tennyson, Alfred., QUEEN MARY., London, Henry S King & Son. 8vo viii, 278pp [9] Full blue morocco, front cover with elegant on-laid and gilt interlacing floral designs of green leaves and cherries accenting with a Jade cabochon as a center piece, spine gilt ruled in six compartments, gilt titles and date, gilt turn-ins. TEG. Signed [John F] Grabau. in fine condition.
John Frederick Grabau was born in Wisconsin in 1878. He trained as an artistic bookbinder, apprenticing in the printing shop of Gies & Co. and at Peter Paul's bookbindery. In 1902, Grabau became the protégé of Louis H. Kinder at the Roycroft community bindery. Kinder founded the Roycroft Bindery in 1896 and attracted many talented young artists, including Grabau, Harry Avery, and Charles Youngers. The Roycroft community produced some of the finest hand-crafted books, furniture, lamps and metalwork of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Grabau left Roycroft in 1905 to found the Derome Bindery in Buffalo, New York. He named the bindery after Nicolas Derome, who was noted for his dentelle borders. Grabau died in Aurora, New York, in 1948.
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Details
- Bookseller
- E. C. Rare Books [ABA / ABAC] (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 442
- Title
- Queen Mary
- Author
- Tenyson
- Format/Binding
- Fine Binding by Grabau
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Henry S King & Son.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1875
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fine binding by [John F] Grabau
- Bookseller catalogs
- 1700s - 1900s Literature;
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Dentelle
- Borders on the inner edge of a book with a lacy pattern, most often gilt. Popular in France during the 18th century on covers of...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...