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Binding. Shakespeare's Sonnets, Reprinted from the Edition of 1609, Hacon & Ricketts, [Vale Press], 1899, wood engraved border with large decorative initial by Ricketts, early manuscript inscriptions and bookplate of Helen Cecil Minns on preliminary blanks, patterned endpapers, all edges gilt (small unexceptionable ink blot to edge of final few leaves), contemporary olive green crushed morocco by Florence Paget, signed in gilt 'FP 1902' to lower pastedown, slightly rubbed spine and margins of sides faded, raised bands, gilt titled direct in second compartment and with date at foot, spine and covers gilt panelled with square lattice design incorporating roundels and lozenges at intersections, gilt fillets on edges and turn-ins, large 8vo in 4s (Qty: 1) Tomkinson page 167: '210 copies on paper at a guinea; the entire vellum edition was burnt at the Printers'.' Inscribed: Grace Moultrie June 24.1902. C.P.L.P.' and below in another hand 'Given to H. C. Minns in memory of Miss Moultrie in 1914'. Florence Paget was a pupil of Douglas Cockerell who lived and worked in Farnham, Surrey. She exhibited at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society in 1899 and is known to have been practising the art of bookbinding at least until 1907. Marianne Tidcombe illustrates a binding executed by her in 1902 for a Vale Press Sonnets by Sir Philip Sydney (now in the Wormsley Library) and refers to Paget's 'tastefully designed gold-tooled bindings.' (Marianne Tidcombe, Women Bookbinders, 1996, pages 162-63).