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WOMEN BOOKBINDERS]. ARNOLD, Matthew. The Foresaken Merman . Decorated by Jean C. Archer. London: J.M. Dent, 1900. Square 8 o (184 x 134 mm). Hand-colored illustrations and decorations by Jean C. Archer. Binding : citron goatskin, covers elaborately decorated with multi-colored onlays and gilt-dot decoration, smooth spine decorated with gilt dots and small circular onlays, top edge gilt, others uncut, FOR THE GUILD OF WOMEN BINDERS, presumably by Gwladys Edwards, ca 1910 (spine ends slightly rubbed). Provenance : Estelle Doheny (paper bookplates). ONE OF FIFTY COPIES ON JAPAN VELLUM FOR THE GUILD OF WOMEN-BINDERS. See Marianne Tidcombe, Women Bookbinders (1996), pl.26 for a very similar binding of the same title bound by Gwladys Edwards at Wormsley Library. [ With :] ROSSETTI, Christina. Goblin Market . London: MacMillan, 1898. 8 o (258 x 170 mm). Hand-colored illustrations by Laurence Housman Binding : dark brown morocco gilt, covers elaborately decorated with floral designs of multi-colored onlays and gilt-dot decoration, smooth spine decorated with gilt dots and small onlays, doublures with onlaid morocco and gilt floral pattern, vellum linings with gilt heart tool at each corner, top edge gilt, others uncut, by the Hampstead Bindery (head of spine torn, a little wear to extremities). Provenance : Estelle Doheny (paper bookplates). ONE OF 160 LARGE-PAPER COPIES. "The bookseller Frank Karslake, who was financial backer of the Hampstead Bindery, started the Guild of Women Binders in 1898 as a way of publicising and promoting the sale of books bound by women. He too saw that more money could be made by teaching women to bind than by only binding and selling books, and in the summer of 1899 he established a Guild workshop in Hampstead, where women binders could be trained, and where, if they wished, they could afterwards work for him" (Tidcombe, p. 28). (2)