Being the Thirty-first Chapter of Proverbs Beginning With the Eleventh Verse. Grand Rapids, MI: "Printed from plates made from the designs of Cora June Cady" [from colophon], 1902. Printed on double leaves and hand lettered by Cady in a style referencing Hebrew letters, with beautiful illumination in watercolors and painted gold within initials, small vignettes, and ornaments. Presentation title page notes this as a gift from "Katharine MacDonald Jones" to "Julia E. Elliott". Stiff yapp edge Japan vellum boards with title in gilt to front cover. Measures approx. 5.5" x 8.25". Significant staining and soiling to covers; spine similarly soiled, with a few small tears. Rubbing to edges and corners. Brown stain to lower edge to covers that is also present on the very bottom edge of the text. (Textblock is clean other than that.) A curious variant printing from the same plates as the original Craftsman’s Guild publication The Perfect Woman (Boston, 1900), here retitled and issued without the Craftsman's Guild imprint. The title page is explicitly arranged for presentation, and the colophon indicates the use of Cady’s original plates. Thus, it appears this likely was a locally produced gift/presentation copy, with Cady being a prominent artisan from the Grand Rapids area.
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