The Service. Edited by F. B. Sanborn

  • [31] pp. Printed at the Merrymount Press. 1 vols. 8vo
  • Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902
By (Binding) Thoreau, Henry David
Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902. No. 458 of 500 copies. [31] pp. Printed at the Merrymount Press. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary tan pigskin, ruled in blind, boards with a central field bordered in blind and semé with gold dots, a.e.g. Front board detached. No. 458 of 500 copies. [31] pp. Printed at the Merrymount Press. 1 vols. 8vo. "an unfinished binding done by me at Miss Emily Preston's bindery, N.Y. Patty P.L. Sesler" and below in another hand J.S. Brown.
Emily Preston was a Cobden-Sanderson student who ran a bindery at 223 East 17th St., NYC and was one of the founders of the Guild of Bookworkers in November, 1906. BAL 20138; Smith, Merrymount Press, #138; Tidcombe, Women Bookbinders 1880-1920 pp. 179-180

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