[Modeled Leather Binding] Crane, Thomas Frederick. Italian Popular Tales. Fine Bindings Woodcut frontispiece by Reginald Savage

Woodcut frontispiece by Reginald Savage and printer's device at end

the rear of the volume has been personalized by the Roycrofters for Beulah Hood (illuminator

mentioning the design and tooling was by Hay-Cooper

Original cloth-backed boards with a title label to the upper panel

Bound in cordovan crushed morocco with simple gilt ruling to covers and lovely arts & crafts spine

[Modeled Leather Binding] Crane, Thomas Frederick. Italian Popular Tales. Fine Bindings Woodcut frontispiece by Reginald SavageCrane, Thomas Frederick. Italian Popular Tales. London: Macmillan and Company, 1885. Bound in modeled goatskin leather, featuring a design of flowers and vines to both covers. Title in gilt to spine, gilt decorated turn ins; top edge gilt. The binding is unsigned, but certainly the work of a skilled artisan. Arts & crafts bookplate of Edmund Bulkley to front pastedown. Water damage & staining to lower left of binding and text block. Light rubbing to