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smithsonianlibraries:A selection of abstract book cover designs by the Guild of Women-Binders from The bindings of to-morrow (1902).In the introduction, G. Elliot Anstruther says of the Guild of Women-Binders:“Begun inauspiciously, in the face of discouraging criticism that was at times hardly to be distinguished from hostility, the work went steadily on, realizing its purpose by a consistent loyalty to its own ideal. In the result, criticism has become praise, and even the scoffers of a few years back are constrained to devotion.”Full text available here. -- source link