Douglas COCKERELL binder & manager for W.H. Smith
[Douglas COCKERELL, binder and manager of W.H. Smith bindery].
R. Phene SPIERS. Architecture East and West A collection of essays written at various times during the last sixteen years … now first brought together and issued with further illustrations as part of a testimonial to the author. London: published for the Committee of the Spiers Testimonial by B.T. Batsford, 1905. Large octavo (9 3/8 x 6 1/8inches; 237 x 156mm). Portrait frontispiece, plates , illustrations. Contemporary red/brown morocco by the W.H. Smith & Son bindery, tooled in gilt and blind, the upper cover with a central gilt laurel wreath surrounding the initials ‘R.P.S.’, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second and third compartments, dated in gilt at the foot of the spine, the bands position emphasized on the covers with stylized foliage in blind with small gilt berries, turn-ins with gilt four-line decoration, typical simple but decorative cornerpieces, green endpapers, book block with gilt edges, blindstamp to rear pastedown ‘Bound by W.H. / Smith and Son’.
Condition: some light discoloration and very light scuffing to binding, otherwise in excellent condition (see images).
Provenance: possibly Robert Weir Schultz, later Robert Weir Schultz Weir (1860-1951, Scottish Arts and Crafts architect, artist, landscape designer and furniture designer, penciled note to the verso of the title page ‘R.W. Schultz Esq.’)
The present work appears to have been bound by Smiths for Spiers’ colleague and fellow Architect, R.W. Schultz. It is not clear if the work was done by Douglas Cockerell, but he was certainly the manager of the bindery at the time. The deluxe nature of this copy is appropriate as Schultz was the Hon. Secretary & Treasurer of the Committee which decided the form which the Testimonial should take. The overarching idea was to acknowledge Spiers' importance as a historian, architect and teacher.
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[Douglas COCKERELL, binder and manager of W.H. Smith bindery].
R. Phene SPIERS. Architecture East and West A collection of essays written at various times during the last sixteen years … now first brought together and issued with further illustrations as part of a testimonial to the author. London: published for the Committee of the Spiers Testimonial by B.T. Batsford, 1905. Large octavo (9 3/8 x 6 1/8inches; 237 x 156mm). Portrait frontispiece, plates , illustrations. Contemporary red/brown morocco by the W.H. Smith & Son bindery, tooled in gilt and blind, the upper cover with a central gilt laurel wreath surrounding the initials ‘R.P.S.’, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second and third compartments, dated in gilt at the foot of the spine, the bands position emphasized on the covers with stylized foliage in blind with small gilt berries, turn-ins with gilt four-line decoration, typical simple but decorative cornerpieces, green endpapers, book block with gilt edges, blindstamp to rear pastedown ‘Bound by W.H. / Smith and Son’.
Condition: some light discoloration and very light scuffing to binding, otherwise in excellent condition (see images).
Provenance: possibly Robert Weir Schultz, later Robert Weir Schultz Weir (1860-1951, Scottish Arts and Crafts architect, artist, landscape designer and furniture designer, penciled note to the verso of the title page ‘R.W. Schultz Esq.’)
The present work appears to have been bound by Smiths for Spiers’ colleague and fellow Architect, R.W. Schultz. It is not clear if the work was done by Douglas Cockerell, but he was certainly the manager of the bindery at the time. The deluxe nature of this copy is appropriate as Schultz was the Hon. Secretary & Treasurer of the Committee which decided the form which the Testimonial should take. The overarching idea was to acknowledge Spiers' importance as a historian, architect and teacher.
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