[Fine Binding | Sarah T. Prideaux] The World at Auction Roycrofters Dark red endpapers

Dark red endpapers

accented with swirling gouges and fleurons

and Arthur Lee

Bound in russet brown goatskin by Patience Scott Cockerell (stamped "PSC 1901" on rear turn-in)

Though no name or initials of the artist appear to be noted within the volume

[Fine Binding | Sarah T. Prideaux] The World at Auction Roycrofters Dark red endpapersField, Michael [pseud. of Katherine Bradley & Edith Cooper]. The World at Auction. London: Hacon & Ricketts, 1899. Limited to 210 copies. Red & black woodcut illustration & opening initial by Charles Ricketts, under whose supervision the book was printed at the Ballantyne Press. Bound in crushed red morocco by Sarah T. Prideaux (signed "S. T. P. 1901") with a large border on both covers featuring large gilt poppies in each corner, with swirling gouges