[Fine Binding | Leonard Mounteney] A Masque of Love E-List 16 but the remaining illustrations and

but the remaining illustrations and facsimile letters are printed on Japan vellum

featuring design elements often seen in his bindings

Spine in Japan vellum with titles and motifs used on title label stamped in gilt

A Christmas Eve Family Story

and tear to fabric at front hinge (binding still solid)

[Fine Binding | Leonard Mounteney] A Masque of Love E-List 16 but the remaining illustrations andWood, Charles Erskine Scott. A Masque of Love. Chicago: Walter M. Hill, 1904. One of 500 copies printed at the Elston Press of New Rochelle, New York. Title page decorated with an arabesque bar and a small cherub. Initials of scene openings elaborately wood engraved. Bound in 3 4 crushed morocco by Leonard Mounteney (stamp signed on front inner dentelle) with square corners and patterned paper boards; each corner with a gilt fleuron at corner and