[Fine Binding | Arts & Crafts] Notes on the Margins

Harrison, Clifford. Notes on the Margins: Being Suggestions of Thought and Enquiry. Five Essays. London: George Redway, 1897. Bound in full brown crushed morocco (unsigned), both covers with a concentric swirling design of gilt vines, made up of leaves and gilt dots, terminating in small flower buds in gilt. Five bands to spine, with title and author to second compartment, vine & leaf design to remaining compartments. Wide turn-ins with similar design, striking metallic silver and pink flower endpapers. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to edges, spine bands, and joints, closed splits to upper 1.5" of front and rear joints. Some minor loss to gilt tooling. Corners bumped.