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COBDEN-SANDERSON, Julia Sarah Anne (1853-1926). How I Became A Vegetarian. Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1908.
8° (163 x 113mm). Sewn into contemporary pasteboards [by the Doves Bindery], covered with copies of 'List 4 ... June 1905', gilt edges (boards lightly spotted and marked), late 20th-century morocco box by James Brockman, titled in gilt on the upper panel. Provenance: [Thomas and Annie Cobden-Sanderson, by descent to their son -- Richard Cobden-Sanderson (1884-1964; one of two included in lots 252-253, Sotheby's, 24 July 1995).]
FIRST EDITION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE COBDEN-SANDERSON FAMILY. How I Became A Vegetarian was printed in a small number of copies for private distribution for friends; Tidcombe locates only five copies, including the present one. This copy is particularly remarkable as an unfinished Doves Bindery binding: the sheets have been sewn onto 5 cords with green silk threads and the cords inserted in boards covered with copies of 'List 4', which have been marked up in pencil. 6 blank leaves of Doves paper have been bound in before and after the text and single leaves of thinner paper have been inserted between these blanks and the boards, presumably to protect the bookblock during binding and to be discarded later. Tidcombe Doves Press DPE 92.
8° (163 x 113mm). Sewn into contemporary pasteboards [by the Doves Bindery], covered with copies of 'List 4 ... June 1905', gilt edges (boards lightly spotted and marked), late 20th-century morocco box by James Brockman, titled in gilt on the upper panel. Provenance: [Thomas and Annie Cobden-Sanderson, by descent to their son -- Richard Cobden-Sanderson (1884-1964; one of two included in lots 252-253, Sotheby's, 24 July 1995).]
FIRST EDITION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE COBDEN-SANDERSON FAMILY. How I Became A Vegetarian was printed in a small number of copies for private distribution for friends; Tidcombe locates only five copies, including the present one. This copy is particularly remarkable as an unfinished Doves Bindery binding: the sheets have been sewn onto 5 cords with green silk threads and the cords inserted in boards covered with copies of 'List 4', which have been marked up in pencil. 6 blank leaves of Doves paper have been bound in before and after the text and single leaves of thinner paper have been inserted between these blanks and the boards, presumably to protect the bookblock during binding and to be discarded later. Tidcombe Doves Press DPE 92.
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