The bindings of to-morrow. A record of the work of the Guild of women-binders and of the Hampstead bindery
A 1902 London record of bookbinding work produced by the Guild of Women-Binders and the Hampstead Bindery, printed for the guild and illustrated with plates of their designs. The two pictures show full bindings with the spine at left: a red binding with teal panels and stylised leaf and berry tooling, and a green binding with curving art nouveau corner ornaments and a spine labelled Keats Poems. A designer could take from them the flat, pattern-based art nouveau tooling in limited colour pairs, with foliage and geometric corner motifs set within a framed cover.
