[Elm Press | Peter Verburg] Cowley, Abraham. Essays.

Cowley, Abraham. Essays. Highland Park, IL: Elm Press, 1902. Limited to 110 copies on Bachelor paper, printed by Everett Lee Millard. Includes a portrait on India paper from an old engraving by W. Faithorne. The initials have been designed by the bookbinder Peter Verburg, featuring design elements often seen in his bindings. Grey paper-covered boards with green cloth spine. Gilt lettering to spine. Small bookplate on front pastedown. A beautiful copy of this scarce volume.

Peter Verburg was a protégé of Ellen Gates Starr at Jane Addams' Hull House, further trained under Douglas Cockerell and Ralph Randolph Adams, and went on to direct D.B. Updike's bindery at the Merrymount Press in 1906.