Featured Bindings

Henry Noel Humphreys. 
Sentiments and Similes of William Shakespeare. Classified Selection of Similes, Definitions, Descriptions and Other Remarkable Passages in the Plays and Poems of Shakespeare.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1857

Elaborate molded papier-mâché covers. The interior of the book was produced by means of chromolithography printed by Engelmann & Graf, Paris. 

William Shakespeare. Songs From the Plays of Shakespeare. 
London: Printed for the Guild of Women-Binders, 1899.

One of 100 copies on Japanese paper printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. In The Binding of To-morrow (1902) G. Elliot Anstruther wrote, “…the Guild of Women-Binders is doing for the craft of bookbinding what the Kelmscott Press accomplished for modern printing.” The guild was founded in London by Frank Karslake and existed from 1898-1904.

William Shakespeare. King Lear.
San Francisco: David Magee, 1930.

Printed at the Curwen Press in England. Illustrated by John Yunge-Bateman, aka “Yunge” (1897-1971). This copy was bound in full Morocco (fine goatskin) by Herbert and Peter Fahey in 1940. Edition limited to 240 copies. 

An illustration from this book can be seen under "Fine Press Limited Editions."