Sarah Prideaux

Sarah Prideaux (1853–1933) was a bookbinder, teacher, historian and author of books on binding and illustration.

For several years she experimented, wrote articles, produced bound books inspired by Art Nouveau designs, and showed in various exhibits.

It has since been discovered that although she designed the bindings, selected the leather and marbled endpapers to a very detailed specification, the actual bookbinding was carried out by a French tradesman, Lucien Broca, and possibly others under her name.

[3] Throughout the 1890s, Prideaux, an expert on the history of bookbinding, taught, lectured, and wrote reviews and articles for journals and magazines.

She was very physically active, went on long bicycle rides through Europe, skied, and bobsledded, even into middle age.