Katharine Adams

Katharine Adams (25 November 1862 – 15 October 1952) was a British bookbinder famous for her detailed leather bindings.

[1] Adams trained briefly as a bookbinder with Sarah Prideaux and T. J. Cobden-Sanderson in London in 1897, then set up her own workshop in Lechlade.

[1] In 1901, Adams established the Eadburgha Bindery in Gloucestershire, where she employed and trained two assistants, both women.

In 1913, she married Edmund James Webb, and they moved to Otmoor near Islip in Oxfordshire before returning to Gloucestershire in the 1930s.

[5] Adams' bindings are held by private collectors and collecting institutions alike.

The Bodleian copy of Walter Pater 's An Imaginary Portrait (1894), re-bound for the Library in 1916 by Katharine Adams, with her cover-design