[Grolier Club | Ephemera] Catalogue of Decorated Early English Bookbindings

Catalogue of Decorated Early English Bookbindings: Exhibited at The Grolier Club, 1899. New York: The Grolier Club, 1899. Printed cream wrappers, cover within an ornamental red border and with a decorative “C” initial; edges untrimmed. Issued for the Club’s exhibition of English bindings--from Tudor through late-seventeenth-century examples--drawn from member and institutional collections. Some light toning to covers and edges.

Together with an original Grolier Club invitation for the Private View of the Exhibition and for the Annual Meeting of the Club, January 26, 1899. Folding card in striking polychrome covers imitating a gilt-tooled seventeenth-century binding (panels in red and green with scrolling foliage and stars), interior letterpress printed in gold.