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Cockerell (Patience) Binding pattern book,

c.130 designs, tooled in black on tracing paper, numbered throughout by Frank Broomhead, referring to his article on the binder (see below), mounted in plain brown morocco guard book (presumably the binder's work), some 40 additional sketches loosely inserted, together with some other material (press cuttings of a 1904 exhibition, proof of headed paper based on a Sangorski design, cuttings of other binder's work), binding somewhat worn, contents in fine state, large 4to (c. 370mm x 270mm), c. 1901-10.

***Frank Broomhead's article Patience Cockerell, 1985, reproduces the two actual bindings he was able to trace (V&A; British Library); a 3rd of very high quality was in Claude Cox's cat. 83, item 10 (Broomhead 71) and a 4th is sold with this pattern book (Broomhead 24, donated to FB by Willliam le Fanu; brown morocco on William Penn, Some fruits of solitude, 1900; the joints are somewhat worn). The binder (1878-1957) was a descendant of Samuel Pepys' sister Paulina and the grandaughter of C.R.Cockerell (1788-1863, architect). Why she gave up binding c. 1910, at the height of her powers, is a mystery. Material of this nature rarely occurs for sale; there was nothing similar in the Middleton collection..

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