[Fine Binding | Ellen Gates Starr] The Ethics of the Dust E-List 19 "Books / Catalogues / Annovncements

"Books / Catalogues / Annovncements / & all high class / Commercial Work"

as she produced less than ten volumes in 1901

Map on tissue at rear

Limp pink cloth boards with elaborate gilt decoration to front cover and spine

Headbands and initials by F

[Fine Binding | Ellen Gates Starr] The Ethics of the Dust E-List 19 "Books / Catalogues / AnnovncementsRuskin, John. The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1867. Bound in full dark brown pigskin by Ellen Gates Starr in 1911, signed "E. G. S. 1911" on the rear turn in, featuring a fascinating geometric design of five rows of alternating inlaid red and blue diamonds, with a pattern of rows with groups of four blue diamonds between. Each row is decorated with and connected