[A Mosaic Binding by Curtis Walters] In Quest of the Perfect Book E-List 16 extraordinary skill and sophisticated taste…"

extraordinary skill and sophisticated taste…" (Parke-Bernet

Patterned endpapers

original initial designs that don't seem to reference other presses of the period

With the Tiffany & Co

Faint spotting to some early leaves

[A Mosaic Binding by Curtis Walters] In Quest of the Perfect Book E-List 16 extraordinary skill and sophisticated taste…"Orcutt, William Dana. In Quest of the Perfect Book: Reminiscences & Reflections of a Bookman. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1926. Color frontispiece illustration with tissue guard (Queen Mary's Psalter); profusely illustrated in black & white. A presentation copy from Orcutt. Bound by Curtis Walters in a superlative mosaic binding. On a background of dark red crushed morocco, the front and back covers are filled by a design of inlaid intersecting