. Modern book-bindings & their designers. ^^1^ & m #^ i ? m «rl^S 9 >,., ^^ t^-T :^^^ 9 r* n - t V^T ?=:¥^:5=3S^S^- m. ZX!^li£~^~i> DESIGNED BY MISS JESSIE KING EXEi:UTKI) IN FOUR ANli O IN IAIEK BY HEKK British Bookbiiidi) Alice B. Woodward we have an artist of more robustand original quality, already acknowledged in thefront rank of women designers, and gifted, perhaps,with a finer sense of composition in draughtsman-ship than any of her peers. Yet another youngdesigner of remarkable, but wholly different, en-dowments remains to be mentioned. The name ofAlthea
. Modern book-bindings & their designers. ^^1^ & m #^ i ? m «rl^S 9 >,., ^^ t^-T :^^^ 9 r* n - t V^T ?=:¥^:5=3S^S^- m. ZX!^li£~^~i> DESIGNED BY MISS JESSIE KING EXEi:UTKI) IN FOUR ANli O IN IAIEK BY HEKK British Bookbiiidi) Alice B. Woodward we have an artist of more robustand original quality, already acknowledged in thefront rank of women designers, and gifted, perhaps,with a finer sense of composition in draughtsman-ship than any of her peers. Yet another youngdesigner of remarkable, but wholly different, en-dowments remains to be mentioned. The name ofAlthea Cliles belongs properly to the neo-Celtic pleasure^gi\-en last Christmas by Charles RobinsonsChiiiTs Book of Saints. His new cover for Pierrettetakes us frankl\- from the religious to the paganworld, and the sumptuous pageantry of the formerwork gives place to the humorous revels of a fairypantomime. This is a very successful instance ofa semi-pictorial decoration carried right acrossthe cover, including the back, and consisting of school, and her cover for the/(^t-OTj-(?/fr: j9. Yeats three and .sat
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