Doves Press.- Wordsworth (William) The Prelude: An Autobiographical Poem...1799-1805, one of 155 copies on paper, printed in red and black, leather book-labels of Estelle Doheny and Haven O'More, handsomely-bound in dark green morocco, gilt, by T.J.Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Bindery, covers panelled and tooled in gilt with border of circles between rules and cornerpieces of four-petalled roses with oak leaves, spine titled in gilt and with floral decorations in compartments and seven raised bands, signed "19 C-S 19" on rear turn-in, g.e., very slight wear to head and foot of joints but still an exceptional copy, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box by James Brockman, roan label, [Tidcombe DP38], small 4to, Doves Press, 1915. ⁂ An attractive binding similar to that on the same book in Tidcombe Doves Bindery No.795 which was executed the same year in red morocco with a slightly different design but using the same tools.
Doves Press.- Wordsworth (William) The Prelude: An Autobiographical Poem...1799-1805, one of 155 copies on paper, printed in red and black, leather book-labels of Estelle Doheny and Haven O'More, handsomely-bound in dark green morocco, gilt, by T.J.Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Bindery, covers panelled and tooled in gilt with border of circles between rules and cornerpieces of four-petalled roses with oak leaves, spine titled in gilt and with floral decorations in compartments and seven raised bands, signed "19 C-S 19" on rear turn-in, g.e., very slight wear to head and foot of joints but still an exceptional copy, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box by James Brockman, roan label, [Tidcombe DP38], small 4to, Doves Press, 1915. ⁂ An attractive binding similar to that on the same book in Tidcombe Doves Bindery No.795 which was executed the same year in red morocco with a slightly different design but using the same tools.
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