[Fine Binding | The Golden Bindery / Kendall Sisters] Musical Memories

Upton, George P. Musical Memories: My Recollections of Celebrities of the Half Century, 1850-1900. Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1908. Bound in maroon crushed morocco by Mary Ellet Kendall and her sister, Sarah Ellet Kendall, at The Golden Bindery in 1909 with a leafy gilt frame and outer gilt rules to covers. Seven bands to spine--with head and tail band in the style of the Doves Bindery--with title to the second compartment and leaf design tooled to remaining compartments. Gilt ruled turn-ins with top edge gilt and other edges gilt on the rough. Measures 5.75" x 8.5". Some rubbing to edges and spine bands, fading to top 1/2" of front cover, slight fading to spine. 

"Mary Ellet Kendall Valentine and her sister, Sarah Ellet Kendall, traveled to England in the early years of the 20th century to study bookbinding with T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, proprietor of the Doves Press and founder of the Doves Bindery, which produced over 1,000 bindings between 1893 and 1922. ...The Kendall sisters trained with Cobden-Sanderson from 1907 to 1909 and, on returning to America, they opened the Golden Bindery in the Fine Arts Building in Chicago" (Yale). The Kendall sisters exhibited at the 1907 Arts & Crafts exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago.