[Fine Binding | John Grabau] The Guardian Angel E-List 23 and tasteful use of gold

and tasteful use of gold leaf to produce books that no Americans save perhaps the artists of the Club Bindery could have matched

she produced large and small stained glass commissions for churches and colleges such as Harvard’s Memorial Hall and Trinity Church in Copley Square" (Gardner Museum)

One of 5 copies printed on vellum

Trench Trübner & Co

or 'illuminating'

[Fine Binding | John Grabau] The Guardian Angel E-List 23 and tasteful use of goldHolmes, Oliver Wendell. The Guardian Angel. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. First American edition. Bound in full light brown crushed morocco by John F. Grabau, featuring an elegant inlaid Arts & Crafts design of a large inlaid burgundy central ornament with navy border and four inlaid teal flowers and small green leaves, with vines in gilt extending outwards, accented with large inlaid green leaves and small red berries. Curving gilt rule around