Women Bookbinders, 1880-1920 Book

	Preface	6
	Acknowledgements	8
	Photograph Credits	9
I	Historical Introduction	11
	Plates	31
II	Women Trade Binders at the End of the 19th Century	65
III	Embroidered Bookbindings	77
	Painted Vellum Bindings	83
	Vernis sans Odeur	85
	Vellucent Bindings	86
	Sutherland Bindings	87
	Metalwork Bindings, Clasps & Bosses	89
	Cosway Bindings	89
	Fore-edge Painting	90
IV	Modelled Leather Bindings, and Pokerwork	91
V	Sarah Treverbian Prideaux	104
VI	Frank Karslake and The Guild of Women Binders	115
VII	Katharine Adams	131
VIII	Sybil Pye	147
IX	Pupils, and Other Women Bookbinders	156
X	Women Binders in America and Elsewhere Abroad	177
App. 1	Sarah Prideaux's Tools, and a List of her Bindings	192
App. 2	Katharine Adams' Tools, and a List of her Bindings	199
App. 3	Sybil Pye's Tools, and a List of her Bindings	205
App. 4	A List of Women and Groups Associated with the Guild of Women Binders	215
App. 5	Bindings by Elizabeth M. MacColl	216
App. 6	Some Women Binders Not Mentioned in the Text	218
App. 7	List of British Women in charge of Bookbinder's Shops, 1648-1901	220
	Selected Bibliography	223
	Notes	224
	Index	237