[Fine Binding | Ellen Gates Starr] The Ethics of the Dust E-List 22 One of BR's 'chosen thirty'

One of BR's 'chosen thirty'

Cockerell notes that bindings signed with the 'WHS' stamp during this period [1905-1914] were specially designed by him" (Bookbinding in the British Isles)

"Tory's woodcut borders were never more gracefully used than in the Ecclesiastes

and unquestionably showcasing the "personality" and "loving care" of Cady and Whitten's artistry

[Fine Binding | Ellen Gates Starr] The Ethics of the Dust E-List 22 One of BR's 'chosen thirty'Ruskin, John. The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1867. Bound in full dark brown pigskin by Ellen Gates Starr in 1911, signed "E. G. S. 1911" on the rear turn in, featuring a fascinating geometric design of five rows of alternating inlaid red and blue diamonds, with a pattern of rows with groups of four blue diamonds between. Each row is decorated with and connected