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by Stephen J. Gertz On Sunday morning, December 29, 1913, at 11:30AM the body of Mary Effingham Chatfield, 42, an art bookbinder with ...

by Stephen J. Gertz Front wrapper. Vulgar, insatiably lustful, shrewish, calculating, mean-spirited, born in a brothel and, above ...

by Stephen J. Gertz In 1884, after artist-poet-designer-printer William Morris compulsively read his copy of the first edition in Fre...

by Stephen J. Gertz Front cover. It is written, though the story may be apocryphal, that on his deathbed on August 14, 1951 - just ...

by Stephen J. Gertz A nude woman, languid upon a sheet in a pastoral setting, with a gown loosely draped across her lower body, is de...

by Stephen J. Gertz Around  1920, Sangorski & Sutcliffe, the famed London bindery established in 1901 by Francis Sangorski (1875-...