[Fine Binding | Ellen G. Woolrich] Bacon's Essays E-List 23 Five bands with heavy gilt

Five bands with heavy gilt decoration to four compartments

and patterned paper boards

with central images of a beaver ringed by a necklace of claws stamped in gilt

featuring reminiscences from home and school

corners worn and bumped

[Fine Binding | Ellen G. Woolrich] Bacon's Essays E-List 23 Five bands with heavy giltBacon, Francis. Bacon [The Essays of Bacon]. London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1903. Contemporary Arts and Craft binding by Ellen G. Woolrich of full brown crushed morocco, covers tooled in gilt with wide floral border surrounding central panel of dots grouped in threes, spine with raised bands and six compartments, lettered in one, the rest gilt with floral tools, a. e. g., signed in gilt on rear turn in 19 E. W. 04. Measures approx. 4. 75" x 6. 5". Light