4to. IN ABSTRACT BINDING OF MULTI-COLORED MOROCCO BY KERSTIN TINI MUIRA, a wrap-around abstract landscape design of lavender, blue, and white against a black morocco base meant to depict a rolling landscape of hills and trees with waves and tiny dots suggesting sea spray with titles gilt on spine, all edges gilt; leather lined morocco-trimmed chemise with matching slipcase.

LIMITED EDITION, number 240 of 650 copies on paper. The Florence Press was founded by the London publisher Chatto & Windus in 1908 and overseen by Philip Lee Warner with the stated aim of producing "the most beautiful books in the choiciest types." This example was bound by Kerstin Tini Muira, considered to be one of the world's leading contemporary binders. After studying bookbinding techniques in Switzerland, Germany, and France, she eventually decided to focus on French bookbinding techniques and would go on to found and teach at the American Academy of Bookbinding in Telluride, Colorado. Tomkinson, p. 85.