[Fine Binding | Ellen Gates Starr] The Ethics of the Dust E-List 22 Gold peacock feather on blue

Gold peacock feather on blue cloth over beveled boards

One of BR's 'chosen thirty'

text reads “From November the Ninth to the Twenty-fourth there will be an Exhibition… from the collection presented to the Club by David Wolfe Bruce

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

and several other facsimile letters

[Fine Binding | Ellen Gates Starr] The Ethics of the Dust E-List 22 Gold peacock feather on blueRuskin, 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