Bound by Christine Hamilton

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Laurence Binyon (1869-1943), The Drawings and Engravings of William Blake (London: The Studio, Limited, 1922). Gift of Sinclair Hamilton, Class of 1906. Graphic Arts Collection (GAX) Oversize 2006-0730Q


When the bibliophile Sinclair Hamilton died in 1978, he left a group of 150 rare books to the Princeton University library. Forty-nine of these were bound by his wife, Christine Hamilton (died 1968) who studied bookbinding under Eleanor van Sweringen in New York and Charles Pagnier in Paris.

“For many years she headed the Guild of Book Workers in New York. Books bound by her were exhibited at the World’s Fair in San Francisco in 1939, at the exhibition at the Grolier Club in 1947, at the Princeton Exhibition in 1951, and on many other occasions. An exhibition devoted entirely to her work was held at the Argent Galleries … in 1949.”—Library Chronicle Autumn 1978

Here are a few more examples.

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Gordon Christian Aymar (born 1893), Bird Flight ([S.l.]: Dodd, Mead, 1935). Gift of Sinclair Hamilton, Class of 1906. Graphic Arts Collection (GAX) 2006-2574N


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Woldemar von Seiditz (1850-1922), A History of Japanese Colour-Prints (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1910). Gift of Sinclair Hamilton, Class of 1906. GAX 2012- in process


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Henry Adams (1838-1918), Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925). Gift of Sinclair Hamilton, Class of 1906. Graphic Arts Collection (GAX) Oversize 2006-0757Q