[Fine Binding | Ellen Gates Starr] The Ethics of the Dust E-List 22 and some books

and some books

Letter to a Friend &c

and some fraying to edges of silk endpapers

Gold peacock feather on blue cloth over beveled boards

text reads “From November the Ninth to the Twenty-fourth there will be an Exhibition… from the collection presented to the Club by David Wolfe Bruce

[Fine Binding | Ellen Gates Starr] The Ethics of the Dust E-List 22 and some booksRuskin, John. The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1867. Bound in full dark brown pigskin by Ellen Gates Starr in 1911, signed "E. G. S. 1911" on the rear turn in, featuring a fascinating geometric design of five rows of alternating inlaid red and blue diamonds, with a pattern of rows with groups of four blue diamonds between. Each row is decorated with and connected