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Binding.- Bunyan (John) The Pilgrims Progress, engraved portrait, title in red & black, foxed at beginning and end, signed and inscribed by the binder Maude Nathan to Frederick Martin Burton on front free endpaper and with A.L.s to Burton from Esther Nathan informing him of Maude's death tipped in, attractively bound in green morocco tooled in gilt, by Maude Nathan, spine gilt, signed "M.N.1908" on rear turn-in, g.e., spine slightly rubbed and faded, 8vo, William Pickering, 1849.

⁂ Maude Nathan (d.1910) was taught by Sarah Prideaux and "is best known for her translation of Georges de Récy's Décoration du Cuir, published as The Decoration of Leather in 1905...but she seems to have bound for only a short time". Tidcombe, Women Bookbinders 1880-1920 p.157.

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Binding.- Bunyan (John) The Pilgrims Progress, engraved portrait, title in red & black, foxed at beginning and end, signed and inscribed by the binder Maude Nathan to Frederick Martin Burton on front free endpaper and with A.L.s to Burton from Esther Nathan informing him of Maude's death tipped in, attractively bound in green morocco tooled in gilt, by Maude Nathan, spine gilt, signed "M.N.1908" on rear turn-in, g.e., spine slightly rubbed and faded, 8vo, William Pickering, 1849.

⁂ Maude Nathan (d.1910) was taught by Sarah Prideaux and "is best known for her translation of Georges de Récy's Décoration du Cuir, published as The Decoration of Leather in 1905...but she seems to have bound for only a short time". Tidcombe, Women Bookbinders 1880-1920 p.157.

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