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Elizabeth Greenhill Bookbinder
A Catologue Raisonne
Published by K. D. Duval, Frenich, Foss 1986
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Limited edition 86/500. Quarto (300x215x15mm.), green cloth titled in gold on spine, mint.
Signed and dated by Elizabeth Greenhill, foreword by Lord Wardington, essays by John Harthan, Dorothy Harrop and Mirjam Foot. Autobiography by Greenhill and over 100 photographs of bindings, mostly in colour. Prospectus and 2 obituaries (Times & Telegraph) loosely inserted.
Elizabeth Greenhill was a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders and past secretary & president. Meetings were held in her London apartment. When I first started going there in the 1980s I found her commanding but incredibly kindly.