GREENHILL, Elizabeth. CORONATION SERVICE. ~ The Music with the Form and Order of the Service to be performed at the Coronation of Her Most Excellent Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in the Abbey Church of Westminster on Tuesday the 2nd Day of June, 1953.
Pp. viii, 184. 8vo., bound by Elizabeth Greenhill (signed on lower turn-in) in full red morocco with dramatic reflected ‘E’ design in gilt tooled with gilt stars and curcles, gilt titling on upper cover, spine in compartments with raised bands, the bands tooled with gilt stars and dot borders, with EIIR in the second panel, turn-ins with gilt fillets and frond and flower tools in each corner, gilt circles at head and tail of spine gold printed fleur-de-lys patterned endpapers, all edges gilt, edge of boards ruled in gilt. A couple of tiny barely noticeable marks. A very handsome binding in excellent condition.
Elizabeth Greenhill’s training was without parallel. She was first introduced to bookbinding by the great Roger Powell’s father, whilst she was at school at Bedales. She went on to study under Pierre Legrain at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs in Paris and later at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London under Douglas Cockerell and William Matthews.
She was the first woman elected as a member of the Guild of Contemporary Bookbinders in 1961, becoming Secretary in 1967. She later became the first female President of the Designer Bookbinders in 1985.