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Walter Horatio Pater, Miscellaneous studies (London, c.1895) (Broxb. 55.14)
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Elizabeth Waterhouse, A little book of life and death (London, 1902) (Broxb. 52.21)
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Elizabeth Waterhouse, A little book of life and death (London, 1902) (Broxb. 52.21)
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Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Katharine Adams (1862–1952)
From an early age Katharine Adams was a gifted bookbinder. Winning first prize in the Oxford Arts and Crafts exhibition of 1898, she became an acclaimed and highly sought-after bookbinder in Britain and abroad. She created intricate gold-tooled bindings with tools she herself had designed. Adams became the second president of the Women’s Guild of Art, an organization established by her friend, May Morris, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1938.