Ladies' Mistakes... by Laver, James

The Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury 1933. 1st trade ed., first printing. 8vo. '...Cupid's Changeling; A Stitch in Time; Love's Progress'. With nine full-page illustrations by Thomas Lowinsky. Light foxing to the uncut fore-edge, otherwise a clean bright unmarked copy. From the library of Hugh D.G. Birkett and with his book-label. Bound by him in full red morocco decorated with a pattern of nine flowers, gilt, on the upper and lower covers, lettered gilt on the spine, with marbled endpapers and turnovers decorated with a flower in each corner, with the upper and lower panels of the original dustwrapper bound in at the rear. Although better known as a fine craftsman of furniture in the Arts and Crafts Style, perhaps influenced by his aunt, Kathleen Stubbs, a talented book binder who exhibited regularly in Birmingham, he enjoyed binding books from his own library, which as this example attests, was done artistically and to a very high standard