User:TheRedPenOfDoom/sandboxSarah Prideaux

Sarah Treverbian Prideaux (1853-1933 ) was a British writer and artisan bookbinder whose work has been cited as increasing the prestige of the English bookbinding tradition and spreading its influence to Europe and the United States.

Prideaux's early work was traditional

In addition to bookbinding, she also wrote several volumes about the history and techniques of the craft. Her Historical sketch was "well received".

Prideaux learned the art in London from Joseph Zaehnsdorf, and in France from M. Joli who had taught her friend Leon Gruel. Her students included Katharine Adams

Her brother, Sir Walter Prideaux, was Clerk to the Court of Assistants.

Selected works

 * Exhibition of Bookbinding for the Burlington Fine Arts Club (1891)
 * An Historical Sketch of Bookbinding with Edward Gordon Duff
 * Bookbinders and Their Craft (1903)