[Fine Binding | Ellen G. Woolrich] Bacon's Essays Fine Bindings Frank & Emily Mathewson hand-printed

Frank & Emily Mathewson hand-printed a variety of items in their shop in Springfield

MO: Printed by Fred F

with not only different colors utilized between the front and back cover

De Sauty immediately set the standard for American bookbinding when he hired three European-trained bookbinders

Inscription on image opposite page 240 "In Remembrance of Ellen Terry" and dated 1915

[Fine Binding | Ellen G. Woolrich] Bacon's Essays Fine Bindings Frank & Emily Mathewson hand-printedBacon, Francis. Bacon [The Essays of Bacon]. London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1903. Contemporary Arts and Craft binding by Ellen G. Woolrich of full brown crushed morocco, covers tooled in gilt with wide floral border surrounding central panel of dots grouped in threes, spine with raised bands and six compartments, lettered in one, the rest gilt with floral tools, a. e. g., signed in gilt on rear turn in 19 E. W. 04. Measures approx. 4. 75" x 6. 5". Light