Lot 244
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[Woman binder] Bible; English; Authorised Version
The Holy Bible: containing the Old Testament & the New
Auction: Other Properties | Wed 25 February from 10am | Lots 63 to 255
Description
London: Robert Barker, 1636. 8vo (16.2 x 10.3cm), bound c.1900 in brown crushed morocco, rear turn-in with binder's gilt pallet-stamp ‘M. Marshall’, attributed to Maud Marshall (1869-1940), brass corner pieces and clasps, leather straps (lacking brass fasteners), lacking leaves A1-A2, including general title leaf, but retaining New Testament title [ESTC S125344], bound with imperfect copies of the Book of Common Prayer (1636), John Speed's Genealogies (1636) and the Psalmes (1636)
Footnote
The British Library holds a copy of William Morris's Poems (1908) in an Arts and Crafts gilt green morocco binding with the rear turn-in bearing the pallet stamp ‘M. Marshall’ in the same style as that in the present work. In recently published research (P. J. M. Marks, ‘Miss M. Marshall, the mysterious bookbinder', blog post, 17th December 2024) identify this figure as the Miss Maud Marshall whose career is outlined by Marianne Tidcombe in Women Bookbinders: ‘Miss M. Marshall … was a binder and teacher at 5 Bloomsbury Square, where Sangorski and Sutcliffe had their first bindery … and then at 6 Denmark Street, where Cockerell had his first studio. Miss Marshall worked with Edith J. Gedye … and they exhibited bindings under their joint names at [Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society] exhibitions in 1903 and 1906 … As a teacher, Miss Marshall offered three-, six- and twelve-month courses of instruction … Like many binders, Miss Marshall appears to have stopped binding with the outbreak of the First World War’ (pp. 171-2).