CLUB BINDERY. [AMERICAN VELLUM PRINTING] ANDREWS, WILLIAM LORING. "Among My Books" [Verses by Samuel Minturn Peck]. New York: Printed for William Loring Andrews at the De Vinne Press 1894. 8vo, 227 x 156 x 14mm. (8 15/16 x 6 1/8 x 9/16in.), an inlaid Mosaic binding, navy blue crushed levant morocco, each cover with a outer border of two gilt-dotted rules in different spacings around a wide band of inlaid brick-red morocco within paired gilt fillets and decorated with repeated impressions of two small flower tools, scrolls and inlaid black morocco gilt-circlets, around a large panel design of inlaid citron morocco corner ornaments shaped on the insides, inlaid citron morocco stylized tulip tools, inlaid olive morocco rose and tulip tools, citron and red morocco small circlet inlays, the center with a large arabesque of inlaid brick-red morocco leaving the cover morocco exposed as a small oval at absolute center, the corner panels, center inlay and the sides of the large panel finely tooled to a dentelle style with gilt dots, a pair of gilt vase tools and various flower and leaf tools; spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in one compartment a dentelle panel with small red and citron morocco inlays in the rest, each panel within double gilt fillet; board edges with double gilt fillet, turn-ins with gilt-dotted rules and gilt fillets, vellum doublures with gilt flower corner ornaments, vellum flyleaves, stamp-signed on upper turn-in: "The Club Bindery 1903", modern cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION, NUMBER ONE OF TWO COPIES PRINTED ON VELLUM of an edition of 50 copies, colored and plain plates on Japan paper and a vellum impression of the Andrews bookplate signed by E.D. French.Provenance: 1. M.C.D. Borden, bookplate (sale, American Art Association, 17 February 1913, lot 25, $420, illustrated)R 2. Cortlandt F. Bishop, bookplate (sale, AAA/Anderson, 5 April 1938, lot 104, $220). 3. John A. Saks, bookplate (sale, Christie's New York, 20 April 1979, lot 204, $5,000).

CLUB BINDERY. [AMERICAN VELLUM PRINTING] ANDREWS, WILLIAM LORING. "Among My Books" [Verses by Samuel Minturn Peck]. New York: Printed for William Loring Andrews at the De Vinne Press 1894. 8vo, 227 x 156 x 14mm. (8 15/16 x 6 1/8 x 9/16in.), an inlaid Mosaic binding, navy blue crushed levant morocco, each cover with a outer border of two gilt-dotted rules in different spacings around a wide band of inlaid brick-red morocco within paired gilt fillets and decorated with repeated impressions of two small flower tools, scrolls and inlaid black morocco gilt-circlets, around a large panel design of inlaid citron morocco corner ornaments shaped on the insides, inlaid citron morocco stylized tulip tools, inlaid olive morocco rose and tulip tools, citron and red morocco small circlet inlays, the center with a large arabesque of inlaid brick-red morocco leaving the cover morocco exposed as a small oval at absolute center, the corner panels, center inlay and the sides of the large panel finely tooled to a dentelle style with gilt dots, a pair of gilt vase tools and various flower and leaf tools; spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in one compartment a dentelle panel with small red and citron morocco inlays in the rest, each panel within double gilt fillet; board edges with double gilt fillet, turn-ins with gilt-dotted rules and gilt fillets, vellum doublures with gilt flower corner ornaments, vellum flyleaves, stamp-signed on upper turn-in: "The Club Bindery 1903", modern cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION, NUMBER ONE OF TWO COPIES PRINTED ON VELLUM of an edition of 50 copies, colored and plain plates on Japan paper and a vellum impression of the Andrews bookplate signed by E.D. French. Provenance: 1. M.C.D. Borden, bookplate (sale, American Art Association, 17 February 1913, lot 25, $420, illustrated)R 2. Cortlandt F. Bishop, bookplate (sale, AAA/Anderson, 5 April 1938, lot 104, $220). 3. John A. Saks, bookplate (sale, Christie's New York, 20 April 1979, lot 204, $5,000).

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CLUB BINDERY. [AMERICAN VELLUM PRINTING] ANDREWS, WILLIAM LORING. "Among My Books" [Verses by Samuel Minturn Peck]. New York: Printed for William Loring Andrews at the De Vinne Press 1894. 8vo, 227 x 156 x 14mm. (8 15/16 x 6 1/8 x 9/16in.), an inlaid Mosaic binding, navy blue crushed levant morocco, each cover with a outer border of two gilt-dotted rules in different spacings around a wide band of inlaid brick-red morocco within paired gilt fillets and decorated with repeated impressions of two small flower tools, scrolls and inlaid black morocco gilt-circlets, around a large panel design of inlaid citron morocco corner ornaments shaped on the insides, inlaid citron morocco stylized tulip tools, inlaid olive morocco rose and tulip tools, citron and red morocco small circlet inlays, the center with a large arabesque of inlaid brick-red morocco leaving the cover morocco exposed as a small oval at absolute center, the corner panels, center inlay and the sides of the large panel finely tooled to a dentelle style with gilt dots, a pair of gilt vase tools and various flower and leaf tools; spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in one compartment a dentelle panel with small red and citron morocco inlays in the rest, each panel within double gilt fillet; board edges with double gilt fillet, turn-ins with gilt-dotted rules and gilt fillets, vellum doublures with gilt flower corner ornaments, vellum flyleaves, stamp-signed on upper turn-in: "The Club Bindery 1903", modern cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION, NUMBER ONE OF TWO COPIES PRINTED ON VELLUM of an edition of 50 copies, colored and plain plates on Japan paper and a vellum impression of the Andrews bookplate signed by E.D. French.

Provenance: 1. M.C.D. Borden, bookplate (sale, American Art Association, 17 February 1913, lot 25, $420, illustrated)R 2. Cortlandt F. Bishop, bookplate (sale, AAA/Anderson, 5 April 1938, lot 104, $220).
3. John A. Saks, bookplate (sale, Christie's New York, 20 April 1979, lot 204, $5,000).