BOOKBINDING.. Tregaskis Centenary Exhibition Catalogue. A Catalogue of the Tregaskis Centenary Exhibition 1994, Together with a Facsimile of the Tregaskis Exhibition Catalogue of 1894. With Introductions by Marianne Tidcombe and an Essay by Bernard C. Middleton.1994

Designer Bookbinders. 4to, 108pp., limited edition, over 160 full colour illustrs., orig. wrapper, printed paper label on upper cover. In 1894, the London booksellers James and Mary Lee Tregaskis sent out 76 copies of a little book, the Kelmscott Press 'King Florus and the Fair Jehane', commissioning bookbinders around the world to bind them. Within a few months all the books were returned, duly bound, save three. The resulting 73 bindings, remarkable for their quality and diversity, were displayed at the Tregaskis bookshop. The collection was purchased by Mrs Rylands, and is now in the John Rylands Library, Manchester. Designer Bookbinders decided to commemorate the 1894 initiative by holding a Tregaskis Centenary Exhibition. They sent a similar number of copies of the Folio Society's 'The Garden & Other Poems' to bookbinders around the world. The 85 bindings were exhibited in London, Sheffield and Bath, before being purchased by the John Rylands Library, where they are now housed alongside the original Tregaskis collection. Every binding is illustrated in colour.