[Fine Binding | John Grabau] The Guardian Angel E-List 23 Trench Trübner & Co

Trench Trübner & Co

Also built in 1890

Blue paper-covered boards with tan cloth spine and printed paper label

and tasteful use of gold leaf to produce books that no Americans save perhaps the artists of the Club Bindery could have matched

One of 5 copies printed on vellum

[Fine Binding | John Grabau] The Guardian Angel E-List 23 Trench Trübner & CoHolmes, Oliver Wendell. The Guardian Angel. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. First American edition. Bound in full light brown crushed morocco by John F. Grabau, featuring an elegant inlaid Arts & Crafts design of a large inlaid burgundy central ornament with navy border and four inlaid teal flowers and small green leaves, with vines in gilt extending outwards, accented with large inlaid green leaves and small red berries. Curving gilt rule around