[Modeled Leather Binding] Crane, Thomas Frederick. Italian Popular Tales.

Crane, Thomas Frederick. Italian Popular Tales. London: Macmillan and Company, 1885. Bound in modeled goatskin leather, featuring a design of flowers and vines to both covers. Title in gilt to spine, gilt decorated turn-ins; top edge gilt. The binding is unsigned, but certainly the work of a skilled artisan. Arts & crafts bookplate of Edmund Bulkley to front pastedown. Water damage & staining to lower left of binding and text block. Light rubbing to covers.