The Mosher Press Bindings

 

Samples of other Illuminated Mosher Books

 

Sample 1: [106kb] Dainty illumination to Sonnets from the Portuguese (1900).
Sample 2: [539kb] Colorized opening by Edwin M. Scribner in Hand & Soul (1899).
Sample 3: [507kb] Pen & ink drawing in The Poems of Master Francois Villon of Paris (1909).
Sample 4: [910kb] Illuminated cover by William Cushing Bamburgh.on Fitzgerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, 1911.
Sample 5: [Various kb] Skillfully illuminated copy of the Sonnets from the Portuguese (1899) by the artist identified on the last page as TNB (or some other combination of those initials?).
Sample 6: [Various kb] Illuminated copy of The Roadmender (1912).
Sample 7: [204kb] Illuminated cover on Félise: A Book of Lyrics (1894).
Sample 8: [Various kb] Illuminated copy of "The Pathos of the Rose in Poetry" in The Bibelot for July 1895 (hand-made cover and illuminated pages).
Sample 9: [262 kb] Illuminated copy of the Rubáiyát (1899) from the Vest Pocket Series (illuminated suede covers and large initial letters and head- & tail-pieces inside.
Sample 10a, Sample 10b, Sample 10c : [Various kb] Illuminated copy of the Old World Kasidah (1923) with several skilled drawings depicting some of the followers of Allah.

 


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