S. T. (Sarah Treverbian) Prideaux
British, 1853-1933
Sarah Prideaux was a bookbinder, teacher, writer, and collector
of fine bindings. In addition to An Historical Sketch of Bookbinding and
other books on her craft, she wrote a well-regarded history of aquatint
engraving, which includes a bibliography and notes on artists such
as Thomas Rowlandson. Prideaux used gilt-stamped brown morocco for
this edition of two of Perrault’s Mother Goose Tales. Her cover
design depicts a flowering rose bush tooled in gold; the spine is
titled and decorated with a thorned stem. Signed “S.T.P. 1900” on
the rear turn-in.
La Belle au Bois Dormant et Le Petit Chaperon Rouge. Deux Contes
de Ma Mere L’Oye, by Charles Perrault, with frontispiece, borders,
illustrations, and initials designed by Lucien Pissarro, and engraved
on wood by Esther and Lucien Pissarro. London: Eragny Press; en vente
chez Hacon & Ricketts, 1899.
Graphic Arts Division
![Portrait [of S.T. Prideaux], by Leonard Baskin](../collection/thumbnails/F3DSC_0001.jpg)
Portrait of Sarah Prideaux
by Leonard Baskin
Color etching, 1988
Graphic Arts Division
Copyright Estate of Leonard Baskin
Other works in the exhibition:
- Aquatint Engraving; A Chapter in the History of Book Illustration,
by S.T. Prideaux; illustrated by an original Aquatint, two collotype
plates, and numerous half-tone plates,
London, Duckworth, 1909.
Graphic Arts Division. Rowlandson Collection
