{"product_id":"the-hampstead-bindery-hand-colored-by-gloria-cardew-poems-on-several-occasions","title":"[Fine Binding | The Hampstead Bindery | Hand Colored by Gloria Cardew] Poems on Several Occasions","description":"\u003cp\u003eDobson, Austin. \u003cem\u003ePoems on Several Occasions\u003c\/em\u003e. London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trübner, \u0026amp; Co., 1895. Two volumes. New edition, revised and enlarged. Limited to 200 copies on handmade paper with proof impressions of the etchings, of which this is #65. Volume I frontispiece is a portrait of Dobson by William Strang, signed by Dobson in pencil. All illustrations (aside from the Strang portrait) hand colored, volume I with a ticket on the verso of the front endpaper noting the illustrations have been “Coloured by hand by Miss Gloria Cardew.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"215\" data-end=\"272\"\u003eFull dark brown crushed morocco by The Hampstead Bindery, the covers with a broad, continuous border of heart-shaped compartments, each tooled in gilt with small floral devices, hearts, and roundels, the whole linked by fine dotted tooling and delicate curvilinear stems. Flat spines repeating the heart-and-flower device from the covers, lettered in gilt. Gilt-ruled turn-ins with mottled endpapers in green and pink. All edges gilt. Housed in the original cloth box, lined in felt with titling in gilt to spine; the box is worn, but still fully intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeasures approx. 5\" x 8\". A bit of minor rubbing to edges, a few light spots to front cover of volume 1. A beautiful example. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Hampstead Bindery was founded and financed by the London bookseller Frank Karslake, who also founded and operated the Guild of Women Binders, the two enterprises functioning as closely linked parts of the same commercial and artistic venture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Under the Hill Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46001641390276,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0461\/8328\/4899\/files\/DSC_1131.jpg?v=1776052826","url":"https:\/\/www.underthehillbooks.com\/products\/the-hampstead-bindery-hand-colored-by-gloria-cardew-poems-on-several-occasions","provider":"Under the Hill Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}