[Bertha Gorst | Tipped-In Proof Bookplates] Gothic Book-plates Drop 2 with a beautiful scrolling fleuron

with a beautiful scrolling fleuron design in gilt to each corner of the covers

' Established by William Osgood Grover at 21 Cornhill

Bound in full dark blue crushed morocco by John Grabau

Bound in full dark brown crushed morocco by Riviere & Son with spine band tooling in blind extending onto the covers

Some light soiling and spots to boards

[Bertha Gorst | Tipped-In Proof Bookplates] Gothic Book-plates Drop 2 with a beautiful scrolling fleuronGorst, Bertha [and] Ruskin, John. Gothic Book plates: Being certain passages from 'The Nature of Gothic,' by John Ruskin, & certain Book plates by Bertha Gorst, H. R. E., (Mrs. John G. Aikin). Kansas City: H. Alfred Fowler, 1912. Limited to 250 copies on Italian handmade paper, 12 copies on Japan vellum, and 3 copies on Roman vellum. Seven proof copperplate impressions of bookplates designed by Bertha Gorst, with the frontispiece being signed.