CLUB BINDERY W. WINTER Shakespeares England insc 1892

November 23, 2021

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CLUB BINDERY W. WINTER Shakespeares England insc 1892

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CLUB Bindery. - William WINTER. Shakespeare?s England

Offered for sale by Adam Langlands of 'Shadowrock Rare Books' - for more information please contact him via email at adamlanglands@gmail.com

CLUB Bindery. - Whitelaw REID (owner, dedicatee). – William WINTER.

Whitelaw REID (1837-1912, owner, dedicatee). – William WINTER (1836-1917).

Shakespeare’s England by William Winter. New Edition. New York & London: [printed in Boston, Mass. for] Macmillan and Company, 1892. Octavo (7 x 5ins; 178 x127mm). Pp. [1-6]-7-274. Half-title. Near-contemporary blue morocco by the Club Bindery (signed upper outer corner of verso of front free endpaper), covers with a single gilt rule border, a small rose-flower spray tool at each corner, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second and third compartments, ‘WR’ monogram in the sixth compartments surrounded by small tools, the other compartments with repeat decoration built up from roundels, flower sprays, small foliage sprays and pointille work, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. (slight scuffing to extremities).

Provenance: Mr & Mrs Whitelaw Reid (author’s presentation inscription “To Mr & Mrs Whitelaw Reid / with affectionate regards / of their old friend / William Winter. / June First. / 1892”, binding).

Limited edition of 250 copies of an apparent large paper issue, and on fine laid paper. This example was presented by the Author to the Dedicatee in 1892, who valued the gift enough to have it bound for him by the one of the most important bindery’s of the period.

The book in this form was gathered together from two other earlier publications (The Trip to England, and, English Rambles), and an article which was first published in Harper's Magazine. It was first published in this form in Edinburgh, but the present 1892 edition appears to be the first Macmillan edition. This large paper setting on fine paper does not appear to have been noted elsewhere?

William Winter played an important part at the centre of much of the literary life of America in the late 19th century (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Winter_(author) ). One of the publications which published his work was the New York Tribune. In 1892, Whitelaw Reid was the Tribune's the editor and proprietor.

Whitelaw Reid, politician, ambassador, author and newspaperman, was married to to Elizabeth Mills, the daughter of Darius Ogden Mills: at one point the 'richest man in California' (wikipedia), and see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitelaw_Reid.

"The Club Bindery was founded in 1898 by Edwin Holden, and a few other wealthy members of New York’s Grolier Club, to bring the art of fine bookbinding to America and to bind their most precious books following the finest standards of European binderies. One of the more outstanding binders and finishers was Léon Maillard who studied under France’s finest, including Marius Michel. The bindery ceased its operation in 1909." (https://thomasbirdmosher.net/fine-bindings/bindings-illuminated-mosher-books/the-club-bindery/)

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