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Shelfmark	Collins 523
Held By	BL
Country	England
Period	20c
Cover Material	Goatskin (includes morocco, turkey etc)
Decorative Technique	spine gold lettered
Style
Edges
BookBinder	Leighton Straker
Owner
Author	Bott, Alan John
Title	Our Mothers. Edited by A. Bott. Text by Irene Clephane. A cavalcade in pictures, quotation and description of late Victorian women, 1870-1900.
Place of Publication	London
Date of Publication	1932
References
Notes	London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 14 Henrietta Street Covent Garden. London and Southampton: Printed by the Camelot Press Ltd. Book size: 175x242x30mm. Ticket size: 25x17mm. Clephane (Irene) Bott (A.) Our mothers; ... late Victorian women. First edition, plates, 4to., the de-luxe binding of blue morocco, g.e., by the Leighton Straker Bookbinding Co. Ltd. Standard Rd. Acton, NW 10, with their printed ticket pasted on bottom on contents page, trifling wear and the spine a bit faded, but quite an impressive slab of leather, London, Gollancz, 1932 £50. Quite a common book, but we have not noticed one of these specials before; the spine blocking is identical to that on the publishers blue cloth.

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