[Fine Binding | Marygold Bindery] Pippa Passes and Men and Women

Browning, Robert. Pippa Passes and Men and Women. London: Chatto & Windus, 1908. Printed at the Letchworth Press. Illustrated by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale with ten full-page color plates and a black-and-white title-page design.

Bound in full light brown crushed morocco by the Marygold Bindery (Rosamond Philpott) in 1913, front cover with a lovely Arts & Crafts design with six small leaf clusters at corners and intervals, connected with fillets and curving gouges and accented with small gilt dots. Central gilt lettering “J.B.B. / 1913” with title to top of cover. Rear cover with three gilt rules and small gilt dots at corners. Five bands to spine with author to second compartment, remaining compartments gilt-ruled. Wide gilt-ruled turn-ins, patterned endpapers, top edge gilt. Inscribed from “Ethel” to J.B. Bilderbeck (the "J.B.B." of the front cover), the librarian of St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge and a scholar of Chaucer. Measures approx. 6.75" x 9.5". Light rubbing to edges, corners, and spine bands. Upper spine tip chipped. Some fading to covers, and a few small worn areas to spine. Foxing to text.

Philpott trained at Sangorski & Sutcliffe in 1904 and established the Marygold Bindery in Cambridge shortly thereafter, where she operated until 1932. She exhibited with the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society in 1903, 1906, and 1910 (link).