The Diverting History of John Gilpin. by William cowper. Illustrated By Chas. E. Brock.

London: Printed for the Guild of Women-Binders, 61 Charing Cross Road, 1899 .. Limited edition, number 14 of 100 copies printed on Japanese Paper for the Guild of Women Binders, and finely bound in their workshop. 8vo. 8.25" x 6.5". Original brown calf (niger goat leather?) by the Guild of Women Binders. Spine lettered in gilt. Boards with stylised flowers and swallows flying above, within single rule frame tooled in gilt. Boards rubbed and bumped. Top page edges gilt. Turn-ins ruled in gilt, green marbled endpapers. Contemporary book plate laid-down to verso of the front cover: "Edith Cornwell Ex Libris". Folded compliment slip for Guild of Women-Binders, loosely inserted, with pencil note: "With best wishes for Christmas PR". Guild of Women Binders label to top corner of endpaper. Also, Guild Of Women-Binders ink stamp to base of the same endpaper, Frontis, decorated titl-page, plus a further 9 plates, and further illustrations within the text, all by Charles Edmund Brock., contents clean. A very good copy. ** "Karslake was born Frank Kerslake in Birmingham on 20th July 1851 and baptised on 12th October 1851 at St. Thomas � the son of John Kerslake, bootmaker of 41a New Street, and his wife Mary Anne Findon, whom he had married in 1843. The spelling Kerslake was retained until the 1890s. He married Martha McGregor (1851-1924) in December 1873. Mr. Frank Karslake, bookseller, of Charing-cross-road, said that amongst his ventures was a bookbinder�s business, started in May, 1898, at Pond-street, Hampstead, known as the �Guild of Women Binders�. He died on 25th March 1920 � probate granted to his widow, his effects declared at a meagre �314.8s.4d." - See 'The Bookhunter On Safari', 2016 .