[Modeled Leather Binding] Crane, Thomas Frederick. Italian Popular Tales. Fine Bindings Light blue paper-covered boards with

Light blue paper-covered boards with holland spine and paper label (chipped)

Second wife of 2nd Earl of Lovelace

Gilt-dotted turn-ins with initials "M D H" (dedicatee

While his style evolved with the times in which he lived

Woodcut frontispiece by Reginald Savage and printer's device at end

[Modeled Leather Binding] Crane, Thomas Frederick. Italian Popular Tales. Fine Bindings Light blue paper-covered boards withCrane, Thomas Frederick. Italian Popular Tales. London: Macmillan and Company, 1885. Bound in modeled goatskin leather, featuring a design of flowers and vines to both covers. Title in gilt to spine, gilt decorated turn ins; top edge gilt. The binding is unsigned, but certainly the work of a skilled artisan. Arts & crafts bookplate of Edmund Bulkley to front pastedown. Water damage & staining to lower left of binding and text block. Light rubbing to