[Embroidered Binding] Philopolis, Vol. 6

[Lucia and Arthur Mathews.] Philopolis: A Monthly Magazine Published For Those Who Care. Volume 6, Numbers 1-12 bound together. (While the limitation for the volume is not noted, this copy is unnumbered regardless). Gray card stock front wrap of no. 1 is bound at the front, and front wrap of no. 12 is bound in at rear. Illustrated throughout, primarily by Arthur Mathews. A table of contents and list of illustrations is also included at the front. 

Bound in a beautiful embroidered floral cloth, with green, blue, orange, and pink accents, along with a subtle gold thread throughout. Orange silk brocade endpapers. Measures approx. 4.75" x 7". Some minor rubbing/fraying to extremities; creases to most of the tipped-in illustrations.

Arthur Mathews was a painter and one of the founders of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. He taught at the California School of Design in San Francisco, where he became director in 1890. He left after the 1906 earthquake, when he and his wife Lucia, also a painter, collaborated with the entrepreneur John Zeile to open the Furniture Shop in San Francisco, where he unleashed his combined skills as craftsman, designer and painter. Mathews and Zeile also established Philopolis ["love of the city"] Press and published the monthly Philopolis magazine (from 1906 to 1919), which promoted Arts and Crafts aesthetics in the rebuilding of the city.