Greenhill (Elizabeth, binder).- Morison (Stanley) and Kenneth Day. The Typographic Book 1450-1935: A Study of Fine Typography through Five Centuries, first edition, wood-engraved titles by Reynolds Stone printed in terracotta, folding plate, illustrations, bound in dark green goatskin, by Elizabeth Greenhill, upper cover with title in large onlaid red and black goatskin lettering and gilt-tooling, lower cover with tooling in gilt and blind, title, authors and date in gilt across spine, t.e.g., maroon Japanese endpapers, signed by binder at foot of rear turn-in (executed 1965), preserved in dark green goatskin-backed cloth drop-back box, spine titled in gilt with small gilt crests (rubbed and a little faded, short splits to upper joint), [Catalogue Raisonné 37], 4to, 1963.

⁂ Elizabeth Greenhill (1907-2007) first started bookbinding at the École des Arts Décoratifs pour Dames in Paris, learning the intriquacies of gold-tooling, and later studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London under Douglas Cockerell and William Matthews. She began restoring books but gradually started designing her own bindings, becoming known for two distinctive styles: the "cloud-bindings" of onlaid leather shapes, and bindings using large gilt-tooled lettering as in this work. She was the first woman elected as a member of the Guild of Contemporary Bookbinders (now Designer Bookbinders) in 1961, serving both as Secretary for some years and later President.

The binding was commissioned by Lord Wardington and was exhibited at the 'Modern British Bookbinding' exhibition held at the Bibliotheca Wittockiana, Brussels, and the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, in 1985.