[Fine Binding | Bumpus] Epithalamion and Amoretti Not on Ebay Woodcut illustration and border

Woodcut illustration and border

Trench & Co

inlaid black border around the edges

he was employed as a finisher at the bindery run by Alice Pattinson and Else Hoffman

one from The Art Journal

[Fine Binding | Bumpus] Epithalamion and Amoretti Not on Ebay Woodcut illustration and borderSpenser, Edmund. Epithalamion and Amoretti. London: John & E. Bumpus Ltd, 1903. Frontispiece etching of Spenser by C. Bird and central title page vignette of Elizabeth Boyle. Text features elaborate engraved initials and small in text etchings as head and tail pieces. A lavish binding for Bumpus in full olive green crushed morocco, the upper cover panelled in gilt and richly tooled over a pointill ground with an interlacing inlaid vine and leaf design