Fairies and Chimneys
- London: Methuen & Co, 1919
London: Methuen & Co, 1919. Fourth edition. Fine. A fine copy. Sixteenmo (6 9/16 x 4 inches; 166 x 102 mm.). 45, [1, imprint] pp. Bound by Alice Pattinson ca. 1919 in full crushed brown morocco (stamp-signed in gilt "AP" on rear turn-in). Covers with matching designs on front and rear, featuring a geometrical gilt pattern with four groups of twelve leaves inlaid in green morocco with a central inlaid red morocco flower. Front cover decoratively lettered in gilt, spines in with five raised bands, ruled in gilt and decorated with gilt dots, gilt-ruled turn-ins, pinkish cream liners and end-leaves, all edges gilt.
Rose Amy Fyleman (1877-1957) was an incredibly prolific English writer and poet, whose work focused on age-appropriate stories for children. She is best known her fairy subjects, which “avoided the darkness and the evil that many of the Celtic and Germanic fairy stories contain” (Dictionary of Literary Biography). An example of which is presented here: this lovely little book (first published in 1918) contains twenty-five sweet poems about fairies.
A very nice example of Alice Pattinson's fine work. Pattinson was a talented bookbinder active in the late-19th century. She trained with famous the binder Douglas Cockerell and alongside Katharine Adams and Florence Paget was involved with binding the Ashendene Press “Song of Songs” (1902). She ran a collaborative enterprise “all her later bindings were forwarded by her partner Else Hoffman, and finished by George Fisher, who at the time was one of the finest finishers in England. Fisher attended Douglas Cockerell’s evening classes at the Central School, and Cockerell introduced him to Pattinson just after he had finished his apprenticeship with Rivière’s. Pattinson made no secret of employing Fisher, although frequently her bindings were illustrated in catalogues and journals with no mention at all of who did the different parts of the work. Her bindings are signed with the monogram of her initials, similar to that of Annie Power, and are usually dated” (Tidcombe). Fine.
Rose Amy Fyleman (1877-1957) was an incredibly prolific English writer and poet, whose work focused on age-appropriate stories for children. She is best known her fairy subjects, which “avoided the darkness and the evil that many of the Celtic and Germanic fairy stories contain” (Dictionary of Literary Biography). An example of which is presented here: this lovely little book (first published in 1918) contains twenty-five sweet poems about fairies.
A very nice example of Alice Pattinson's fine work. Pattinson was a talented bookbinder active in the late-19th century. She trained with famous the binder Douglas Cockerell and alongside Katharine Adams and Florence Paget was involved with binding the Ashendene Press “Song of Songs” (1902). She ran a collaborative enterprise “all her later bindings were forwarded by her partner Else Hoffman, and finished by George Fisher, who at the time was one of the finest finishers in England. Fisher attended Douglas Cockerell’s evening classes at the Central School, and Cockerell introduced him to Pattinson just after he had finished his apprenticeship with Rivière’s. Pattinson made no secret of employing Fisher, although frequently her bindings were illustrated in catalogues and journals with no mention at all of who did the different parts of the work. Her bindings are signed with the monogram of her initials, similar to that of Annie Power, and are usually dated” (Tidcombe). Fine.